• Brian Alderman

Becoming a SharePoint Online Admin Expert

SharePoint Online in Microsoft 365 has many components and in this full day workshop we are going to learn about these different components and how to manage them so SharePoint Online is properly configured, secure, and optimized.

We will create a new M365 tenant, customize the admin center, add some users, groups, and manage roles, as well as discuss, explore, and roll up our sleeves and configure SharePoint Online configuration settings, create and configure site collections, configure user profile settings, create a structured taxonomy using the term store, and configure the search service to ensure your users are able to quickly find the information they need.

When you leave, you’ll have all the skills necessary to configure and manage the different SharePoint Online components using both the SharePoint Online Admin Center, and PowerShell.

• Advanced
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• SP Development
• Not hands-on

• Drew Madelung

Share, Protect, & Govern Your Data in Teams, SharePoint, & OneDrive

Collaboration lives at the core of a modern workplace and collaboration is built around the ability to access and share information. Not all information is the same and the ability to get content securely to the right people, both internal and external, at the right time keeps work moving. But how do you easily and securely your data in Microsoft 365? What are your options to ensure you retain control of your data?

The ability to safeguard your data is possible! In this workshop, we will show you:
• The elements of the Microsoft data security landscape
• How to secure you data with sensitivity labels
• Control & manage sharing in your tenant
• Prevent exfiltration with data loss prevention
• How to detect, investigate, and view details on incidents and alerts
• How to bring your audit logs into Azure

By the end of this workshop you will know what you can do to secure your data and allow your company to collaborate better while knowing you are secure!

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• OneDrive
• Not hands-on

• Drew Madelung

Introduction to Microsoft Syntex

Microsoft Syntex brings advanced content AI solutions into your existing Microsoft 365 investment but is it something that will help you?

In this session, we will go through what Microsoft Syntex is, how it works, and why it could be an important part of your enterprise in Microsoft 365.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management

• Antonio Maio

Establishing a Data Protection Strategy with Microsoft Purview

Data Protection is top of mind for all organizations that work with sensitive information. As those organizations move into the Microsoft Cloud and adopt Cloud services faster and faster, establishing a strong data protection strategy is critical to protecting the information that your business runs on and preventing threats from both external attackers and insiders.

Whether you're concerned about unstructured or structured data, risks from accidental or malicious data leaks, external threats, ransomware, external sharing, or any combination of these, having a Data Protection Strategy that protects your data no matter where it lives is a critical part of that strategy. Microsoft Purview provides robust capabilities for protecting that data, both in the cloud, on-premises or shared externally and understanding those capabilities is an important part of rolling out controls to protect your information.

Join Antonio as he shares important considerations for establishing a Data Protection strategy for your organization and learn how you can use the extensive features of Microsoft Purview to protect your critical business information.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Admin/Implementation

• Peter Carson

Building a Rich People Search with OOTB and Open Source Components

Whenever we poll an organization for the top features for their Intranet, People Search that actually works is always in the top three. You'd think this would have been long solved, but it's often still a challenge for many organizations.

There are a number of reasons for this:
- People data is often spread in many different places and systems in an organization, and there is no single version of the truth
- As a result, Azure AD, which is the core of identity in Microsoft 365, is either not well populated or just plain wrong
- People search and people cards in Microsoft 365 has gotten tremendously better, but it's still not all the way there

With so much of an organization's IP and knowledge actually in the heads of the people, finding a person or expert is key to success for the organization as a whole.

In this session we'll go over a series of steps any organization can take to get a handle on their people in Microsoft 365, and provide a simple and rich experience for finding the right person at the right time.

- Review of Azure AD identities and how they are managed
* Synced users from on-premises AD with Azure AD Connect
* Cloud only identities
* What IT manages, and what users or the business can self-manage
- Other sources of truth, and how they can be synced to Azure AD
* HRIS, payroll
* Customizing and extending Azure AD with additional attributes specific to the organization
* Easily deploying and configuring an open-source, rich people search web part that can be used organization wide or within departments or business units
- https://github.com/YannickRe/spfx-msgraph-peoplesearch
- Building fully-customized person pages and self-managed profile pages

We'll also share real-world examples of this in use for a municipal police force, large charity, and post-secondary college.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Search

• Brian Alderman

Data recovery options for SharePoint/OneDrive

SharePoint and OneDrive include several content recovery options for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business administrators, site collection administrators, and end users. Educating your end users on SharePoint recovery options like the site recycle bin, versioning, and site collection recycle bin can lighten the burden on your admins.

Using either a GUI or PowerShell you can backup and restore your entire SharePoint Server farm or components of it. In SharePoint Server you can also perform more granular content backups by exporting site collections, site, libraries, and lists, and there are options for recovering these site collections, sites, lists and libraries from content databases that are no longer part of your SharePoint Server farm.

With a vast majority of your SharePoint Server content stored in SQL Server it is imperative that you have an efficient way to recover items or entire databases as quickly as possible.

This discussion will introduce the Best Practices framework that will allow your SharePoint Server administrators to configure SharePoint as well as SQL Server for quick content recovery, minimizing the downtime and providing shorter and achievable Service Level Agreements (SLA’s).

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Admin/Implementation
• Content Management
• OneDrive

• Joanne Klein

Exploring Microsoft Syntex Document Processing from Start to Finish

Microsoft Syntex marks a significant stride in the intelligent classification of SharePoint content. At the heart of Syntex lies document processing models to effectively assist in managing content. The modern workplace generates vast amounts of unstructured content, which demands large-scale management through automatic structuring, including metadata and content types, and governance, such as security and compliance controls. Fortunately, Microsoft Syntex offers precisely that, and much more!

To showcase this novel capability, Joanne will explain all Syntex model types and provide use-cases for each one. She'll then conduct a live demo to highlight the creation of a Microsoft Syntex unstructured document processing model to efficiently classify SharePoint documents and then integrate it with Power Automate and Syntex Content Assembly to automatically generate related documents using a Syntex modern template!. The walkthrough will cover the complete end-to-end process from setup to model training and deployment.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Content Management
• Power Automate
• Syntex

• Stephanie Donahue
• Mark Rackley

Exploring the Power of Microsoft Teams Mesh: Revolutionizing Collaboration in the Digital Era

Join us for a session on Microsoft Teams Mesh—a transformative platform revolutionizing collaboration by extending the capabilities of Microsoft Teams.

Explore Teams Mesh features, benefits, and integration with Microsoft Teams infrastructure. Discover real-time communication tools, immersive meeting experiences, and the extension of collaboration boundaries with AR, VR, and spatial computing.

Learn about security, privacy considerations, and real-world use cases.  Embrace a new era of teamwork with Microsoft Teams Mesh!

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation

• Stephanie Donahue

Rethinking Information Architecture in the Era of Microsoft 365 Copilot

With the introduction of Microsoft 365 Copilot, it's tempting to think that information architecture is no longer relevant. After all, Copilot promises to find all your information effortlessly, acting as your personal assistant.

However, we need to consider potential challenges. What if Copilot leads users to sensitive content accidentally? Have we adequately secured our environment in our rush to enable remote work? Additionally, how valuable is the content returned in search queries? Is it time to revisit site lifecycle management and retention to optimize Copilot's performance?

Join this session as we discuss strategies to prepare your M365 environment for the future, ensuring seamless engagement with Microsoft 365 Copilot while addressing critical information architecture considerations.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management
• Copilot

• Susan Hanley

Planning Effective Governance of your Intranet in Microsoft 365

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations need to ensure that their intranets and Microsoft 365 environments are effectively governed to meet both business and compliance requirements. But having a governance plan is not enough. Unless you can effectively define and communicate roles and responsibilities, provide actionable guidance and best practices to site owners, content authors, and end-users, your governance plan will not be effective or sustainable.

Attend this session to learn how you can effectively plan and implement governance for your intranet, Microsoft Viva, and Microsoft 365 to support your organization's digital transformation. We will also talk about governance planning for new capabilities - like Copilot and other generative AI tools. Whether you are just starting your governance journey or looking to take your existing efforts to the next level, this presentation will provide you with actionable insights, practical guidance, and content to help you get started!

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Intranet & Portals
• Viva
• Not hands-on

• Matt Lavieri
• Darren Kraut

Building a Roadmap to Safeguard Your Data with Microsoft Purview

In today's ever-evolving landscape, safeguarding your data goes beyond meeting internal security benchmarks—it's about staying ahead of emerging compliance and privacy demands. Join our distinguished Microsoft Purview experts in this session where we dive deep into the capabilities of Microsoft Purview. Discover how to not only comprehend these capabilities but also leverage them to construct a strategic roadmap for deploying and harnessing Purview's potential, all in the service of enhancing your Data Protection, Risk, and Compliance Programs. This actionable roadmap is designed to outline the vision, strategy and high-level timeline for success and includes an assessment of organizational priorities and current state of data protection technology.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Solution Showcase

• Christian Buckley

How to Winter-Proof Your M365 Tenant

In this session, we delve into comprehensive strategies and practical solutions to secure and optimize your Microsoft 365 tenant for seamless performance throughout the winter season and beyond. We'll discuss how to:

1) Declutter your Microsoft 365 Tenant
2) Optimize Microsoft 365 Costs
3) Automate Operational Processes
4) Manage Access and Permissions
5) Establish Teams and SharePoint Provisioning

Join us to empower your organization with knowledge and tools to winter-proof your M365 tenant, ensuring robustness, security, and cost-effectiveness.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Microsoft Teams Admin
• Solution Showcase

• Drew Madelung

Deploying & Managing OneDrive

In this session we will go through the key areas you need to know to help you and your organization to not install OneDrive but adopt and drive usage.

We will go through key topics like how to best plan a migration and deployment, how to configure client and administrative policies, all while learning the tips and tricks of managing such a central solution within the Microsoft 365 world.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Content Management

• Ralph Rivas

Understanding Power Platform licensing

Get under the covers and find out what all this great functionality may cost by diving into the latest Microsoft information on licensing when using the the Power Platform.

This session is updated monthly with each publication of the latest Power Platform licensing guidance and also includes Roadmap changes that are publicly declared.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents

• Pam DeGraffenreid

Streamlining Your SharePoint Success: The Power of Site Templates

SharePoint site templates allow you to standardize and streamline your site creation process, saving time and ensuring consistency across your organization's sites.

In this presentation, we will discuss how to create, customize, and apply templates, as well as considerations for governance and maintenance. Attendees will come away with a solid understanding of how SharePoint site templates can improve productivity and collaboration within their organization.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Not hands-on

• David Drever
• Joanne Klein

Data Lifecycle and Records Management – Tales from the Trenches

As more and more of an organization's data is stored within the cloud, controlling the sheer amount of data can be daunting. Administrators and record managers are being called on more and more to support content management to ensure it is maintained and destroyed based on required schedules within the business.

David and Joanne have assisted organizations for years and helped many enterprises design and build record management solutions within Microsoft 365 from the ground up. In this session, they will discuss critical topics organizations should consider when implementing their record management environment. They will also cover common pitfalls affecting the organization as it journeys down the information governance path.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Content Management
• Not hands-on

• Liam Cleary

Data Security Breach in Microsoft 365, Now What?

In today's world, it is almost inevitable that your organization will experience a data and security breach, no matter the on-premises or cloud software. Microsoft 365 is no different. Even though it contains many fantastic security controls and features, many organizations do not implement them for varying reasons.

In order to protect from a data security breach you need to know what you would do if that were to happen, as well as the controls and features to enable.

In this session, we will step through where to start in the event of a data and security breach within Microsoft 365. We will walk through how to analyze logs, identify which services to review, how to identify the breach, and then how to protect from future events.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• N/A

• Brian Alderman

Exploring Microsoft 365 migration considerations and tools

Congratulations, on your decision to move to Microsoft 365. If your mind is running rampant on how to complete the migration, this session is for you.

We will begin by exploring the steps necessary during the following migration phases:
- Before the migration
- Completing the migration
- Managing the cloud-based content after migration

As you can guess, you’re going to need to know what the best approach is to complete the migration, so we will also discuss what your migration options are, and what tools are available, including out of the box tools like the SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool (SMAT), the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT), Migration Manager as well as several other tools to help streamline and successfully complete your migration to Microsoft 365.

• Advanced
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Admin/Implementation
• Content Management

• Sean McDonough

Nailing Down Performance Issues in SharePoint Online Sites (2023 Edition)

SharePoint Online (SPO) has been with us for over a decade, and in that time it has received numerous changes and adjustments intended to optimize performance. Despite the work that has gone into the platform, some organization still find users reporting a poor experience and "bad performance."

In this session, we will look at development and design approaches that will enable SPO to deliver optimal performance when your organization begins using it. We'll review the current state of tooling available for our use (like the Page Diagnostics for SharePoint tool) and how it can be used to guide analysis of performance issues. We will also look at elements in any environment that can negatively impact SPO performance to make it look like the "bad guy" when SPO is actually innocent.

At the conclusion of this session, participants will have the confidence needed to troubleshoot, classify, and possibly resolve performance-based issues in their SPO tenant.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• SP Development

• Antonio Maio

Learn How to Govern and Secure Microsoft 365 with Microsoft Syntex - SharePoint Advanced Management

In addition to Content AI, the Microsoft Syntex product family brings together a set of key capabilities for better governing Microsoft SharePoint Online and OneDrive as well as securing collaboration within Microsoft 365.

In this session we'll walk through and demonstrate each of these capabilities and discuss real-world scenarios where you can restrict access to sensitive sites and content, run data governance reports to gain insight on where your organization may have risk, and look at the advanced features for managing content lifecycle.

We'll also share insights into the licenses needed to take advantage of each feature. Join us to discover the Microsoft Syntex - SharePoint Advanced Management features.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Content Management
• Syntex

• Daniel Glenn

Enhance Your Intranet with Viva Dashboard Cards

In today's fast-paced business world, an effective intranet is essential for staying connected and productive. The Viva Connections Dashboard enhances every employee's experience by delivering flexible and dynamic information in their flow of work. Using the Dashboard's adaptive cards, we can bring a customized experience for each user. Creating adaptive cards that bring value to your users can start with simple, no-code solutions. Developers can also create cards to connect to data sources and bring enhanced functionality by creating complex integrations.

In this session we will discuss how to create true, no code solutions in the Viva Connections Dashboard, as well as low and full code adaptive cards. Learn how to create and customize adaptive cards, as well as best practices for integrating them into intranets. By the end of the session, attendees will have a better understanding of how to use adaptive cards to improve their intranet and make it more engaging and user-friendly.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Intranet & Portals
• Viva
• N/A

• Drew Madelung

Deep dive into Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention

Are you protecting your data at rest and in transit?

In this session we will go through all the different types of DLP in Microsoft Purview including endpoint, Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and more. We will discuss the configuration options, why it is important, and the best practices to get started while going through a collection of demos.

You will leave this sessions with a deeper understanding of the technology and how it can impact your employee's experiences.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation

• Joanne Klein

Scaling your Retention with Microsoft Purview Adaptive Scopes

This session will do a deep-dive on "scoping" retention policies and labels inside Microsoft 365 and how they can help your organization intelligently scale to meet complex retention requirements. Understanding how to leverage scopes is key to an organization's overall Information Governance and Records Management program design and implementation. It requires IT Administrators and Compliance professionals to work in partnership together.

To demonstrate the capability, Joanne will walk thru several real-world use-cases of building adaptive scopes in Microsoft Purview and will highlight the technology dependencies to be aware of before you start down this path.

4 objectives of session:
- Understand the difference between static and adaptive scopes and when you would use one over the other
- Understand how to create each of the 3 types of adaptive scopes and the technologies they are dependent on
- Understand how to build a query in the Advanced query builder for each type of adaptive scope
- Show how to validate the results of the query

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Content Management

• Peter Carson

Securing Your Digital Workspace: Best Practices for Protecting Your Microsoft 365 from Cyber Threats

Cyberattacks such as ransomware, financial theft, and data loss are a fact of life today. Microsoft invests massively both to provide the tools to protect organizations against these attacks, as well as to identify and defend against them actively. Unfortunately most organizations don't take full advantage of these tools, and many unfortunately leave themselves very exposed.

This will be a rapid fire session giving an overview of the myriad features and products that make up the Microsoft security landscape, and tips on how best to leverage them. The goal is to help you make your organization more secure, but also to do it in a way that appears simpler for everyone.

Identity
- Identity Fundamentals (Azure AD Integration and Hybrid Authentication)
- Azure AD Connect and Health Reporting
- Assigned and Dynamic groups
- Entitlement managed
- Delegated user management

Security
- Authentication
○ Pass-through
○ Password hash synchronization
○ Passwordless authentication
○ Federation
○ SMS
- Multifactor Authentication (MFA)
- Conditional Access
- Self-Service Password reset
- Identity Protection
- Application Proxy
- Password protection
- Privileged Identity Management

Compliance
- Auditing
- Terms of use
- Azure Information Protection
- Azure Rights Management
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal

Licensing
- Microsoft Entra
- Azure AD licensing - Free, Office 365, P1 and P2
- Enterprise Mobility + Security
- Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscriptions
- Defender for Office 365
- External Identities

Scenarios that we will go through include the following:

- Navigating through the various different admin portals
- Azure AD
○ Conditional Access Policies
§ Report only
§ Emergency accounts
§ MFA
§ Legacy Authentication
§ Admin, Member, and Guest policies
○ Branding
○ External Identities configuration
§ General settings
§ Identity Providers - One time passcode, Google, Facebook
§ Cross-tenant settings support for B2B collaboration and direct connect (Teams Shared Channels)
§ Trust settings for external organizations and leveraging that in Conditional Access Policies
§ Terms of use
○ Identity Protection
- Improving your Microsoft Secure Score
- Attack simulation training
- Data classification
- Sensitivity labels in conjunction with Conditional Access Policies and Rights Management

The session will be jam-packed with links to articles both in Microsoft Docs, and articles written by presenter and Microsoft Office Apps and Services MVP Peter Carson.

• Advanced
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation

• Michelle Gilbert

Top 10 best practices every Admin should be doing in M365!

Come and learn the top 10 best practices you should be doing to both manage and secure your environment. Tenant configuration can be a balance of usability and security when planning your roll-out or management model.

These best practices will assist you in improving visibility into M365 and help you understand the necessary controls needed to have in place to ensure your tenant is protected.

• Intermediate
• Admin/Implementation

• Ralph Rivas

Setting up your Power Platform Administrator Workstation in under an hour

Take a tour at the latest and state of the art tools that you can use and setup to help with efficient administration of all things Power Platform from straight up monitoring to controlling governance and deployment without drowning in micro-management tasks or process minutia.

This session covers a hands-on look at the Out-of-Box Power Platform admin center, the latest incarnation of the Center of Excellent kits (both the main and the Automation one!) as well as the Devops/ALM tools that fall into the domain of the administrator.

This is for those who need to set up things from scratch or have already immersed themselves in the administration role who may also be looking for some extra justification to get more monitors.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Brian Alderman

Optimizing SQL Server for SharePoint Server

A vast majority of the content accessed via SharePoint is stored in SQL Server, and also knowing an incorrect configuration of SQL Server can have a detrimental impact on the performance of SharePoint it is important to understand the integration of these two products. Often DBA’s are familiar with how to manage SQL Server, but may not be familiar with some nuances that SQL Server has when integrated with SharePoint.

In this session we will demonstrate how some default SQL Server settings negatively impact SharePoint and what changes can be made in SQL Server at both the instance and database level to improve the performance of SharePoint.

This discussion will introduce the Best Practices framework that will allow your SharePoint administrator and/or your DBA to configure SharePoint and SQL Server to provide optimal performance for your SharePoint.

• Advanced
• OnPrem
• Admin/Implementation

• Michelle Gilbert

Microsoft Teams in a Regulated Environment

Come learn how you can deploy, use, and achieve success with Teams in a regulated environment. In this session we will show you the strategies and technologies you need to succeed.

You will learn:
- Governance Strategies
- Compliance & Records Management
- Security Options
- Monitoring & Auditing Capabilities
- Training and Enablement

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Microsoft Teams Admin

• William Huneycutt

Next level productivity with Microsoft 365 Copilot

Are you looking to take your productivity to the next level? Microsoft 365 Copilot will help you achieve just that! In this hands-on workshop where you'll learn how OpenAI is integrated into Microsoft 365 to streamline your business processes, automate tasks, improve workflows, and increase productivity while saving time and effort.

You'll explore how to use Microsoft's new Bing Chat powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT to get more relevant, up-to-date, and annotated search results using natural language chat. You'll learn how to use the new Bing Chat to help you write emails, summarize documents, create presentations, and more in Microsoft 365 apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Microsoft Edge.

You'll discover how to use Microsoft Teams premium features powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 AI language model such as:
Intelligent recap: A summary of the meeting with key points and tasks.
Smart transcription: A live transcript of the meeting with speakers and edits.
Meeting insights: A dashboard that shows relevant information for the meeting.
Live captions: A real-time translation of the speech into different languages.

You’ll also learn how to use Power Apps and Power Automate where you can describe what you want in natural language and let AI build it for you! For example, you can use Power Apps “Ideas” to create an app from a description3, or use Power Automate “create a cloud flow from a description” or “format data by example” features3 to automate your data processing.

The future of the modern workplace is here! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how Microsoft 365 and OpenAI can help you achieve more with less effort! With hands-on exercises and practical tips, you'll leave the workshop with a solid understanding of how to use Microsoft 365 and OpenAI to maximize your productivity.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Copilot
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power User
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Mike Maadarani
• Sarah Haase

Maximizing Microsoft 365 Productivity: Practical Strategies and Use Cases for Power Users

Are you ready to supercharge your Microsoft 365 skills and take your productivity to the next level? Join us for a dynamic and interactive workshop covering practical productivity tips for using the Microsoft 365 ecosystem to improve your and your team's everyday workflows.

In this workshop, you'll learn from experts who will showcase real-world examples of how to leverage the full potential of Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, Microsoft Teams, OneNote, Planner, OneDrive, Microsoft Forms, Microsoft Lists, and Microsoft Viva. We will also discuss Microsoft Loop and the newly announced Microsoft 365 Copilot!

You'll come away with the best ways to use the many tools in the Microsoft 365 toolbelt, including which apps work best in different scenarios. On top of that, you'll get examples of bringing multiple apps together to extend the value of your digital workplace, based on proven practices your presenters have seen work well for power users in other organizations.

From advanced collaboration techniques to automating everyday tasks, you'll come away with practical tips and tricks that you can put into action right away.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power Automate
• Power User
• Not hands-on

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Hands-On: Azure, Azure OpenAI & ChatGPT For Power Platform Developers Masterclass

Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code platform for rapidly building customized end-to-end business solutions. It consists of five product areas: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages. Each area can be used individually or together. Thanks to native integration with Azure, developers can use their cloud development skills to extend Microsoft Power Platform with different Azure services. With a low-code integrated development approach, business goals can be achieved faster and free up time for the developers.

In this hands-on workshop, we will cover how to use Azure for custom development in Microsoft Platform services like Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Virtual Agents, Dataverse, and Power BI.

We will cover:
• Microsoft Azure Key Concepts
• How does Power Platform use Azure?
• How can fusion teams take advantage of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?
• Authentication and Authorization in Azure
• Azure + Power Automate
• Azure + Power Apps
• Azure + Power Pages
• Azure + Power Virtual Agents
• Azure + Power BI
• Azure + Dataverse
• Azure OpenAI + Power Platform
• ChatGPT + Power Platform
• What are Azure Functions?
• What are Logic Apps?
• What is Azure Bot Service?
• How to create an enterprise-grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of Azure and how to use it to implement the customizations in the Microsoft Power Platform.

Access to Azure, Azure Open AI, and Microsoft Power Platform ( Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power BI ) will be provided to create the customization. The target audience of this hands-on workshop is Developers, Power Users, and IT Pros who want to get into development.

Please note: Attendees will need to bring their laptops with internet access and modern browsers like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. The tablets will not work.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power BI
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Mark Rackley
• Stephanie Donahue

Navigating the AI Revolution in M365

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the way we work, and it's more accessible than ever before.

This full-day workshop led by Stephanie Donahue and Mark Rackley will explore how AI is transforming organizations and what it means for you. Attendees will learn about the AI features available in M365 and how to use them to build applications and workflows.

The workshop will also cover real-world examples of how companies are using AI today and what the future holds for this technology. Get ready to ride the AI tidal wave and discover how it can enhance your productivity and work efficiency.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Not hands-on

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform Better Together

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI has caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. In this demo-driven workshop, Microsoft Business Applications and AI MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer Prashant G Bhoyar will cover how organizations can use Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform services to build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement.

We will cover :
• The new and improved Power Virtual Agents key concepts
• Copilot in Power Virtual Agents
• Azure Open AI Key Concepts
• ChatGPT key concepts
• How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Power Platform?
• Authentication and Authorization in Azure
• Azure API Management
• Azure Communication Services
• Power Platform Custom Connectors
• Azure Open AI + Power Virtual Agents
• ChatGPT + Power Virtual Agents
• How organizations can build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement with Power Virtual Agents, Azure, Power Platform, ChatGPT, and Azure Open AI

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of how to build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement with Power Virtual Agents, Azure, Power Platform, ChatGPT, and Azure Open AI.

• Advanced
• Cloud & OnPrem
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents
• N/A

• Mark Kashman
• Liz Sundet

Keynote: Flexible, AI-Powered Work

The platform shift to AI is well underway. Just as customers turned to Microsoft to help them make the shift to remote and flexible work, they’re now turning to us to help them understand how this new era of AI will change work yet again. Learn how AI is transforming work. Understand how Microsoft 365 can be your end-to-end solution spanning durable trends impacting teamwork, organizational productivity, and employee wellbeing. Join Liz and Mark - product leaders from Microsoft - as they highlight news and demos across Copilot, Teams, Viva, SharePoint, OneDrive, Lists, and more. Kick off 365 EduCon - Chicago to understand the strategy and vision - clarity on where Microsoft is taking productivity into the future.

• All
• AI/OpenAI
• Copilot
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Keynote

• Drew Madelung

Introduction to Microsoft Syntex

Microsoft Syntex brings advanced content AI solutions into your existing Microsoft 365 investment but is it something that will help you?

In this session, we will go through what Microsoft Syntex is, how it works, and why it could be an important part of your enterprise in Microsoft 365.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management

• Mark Kashman

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Join our deep dive to learn more about accelerating your productivity, unleashing your creativity and uplevelling your skills with Microsoft 365 Copilot. We'll include answering your questions on the governance and management of these AI driven experiences.

• All
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Copilot

• Treb Gatte

How to Avoid AI Disasters: ChatGPT, Data Security, and Unintended Consequences

Say your company rushes in the coming months to implement a private version of ChatGPT over their Intranet. An employee asks, "Hey ChatGPT, is my company going to have a layoff?" How will it answer?

This scenario becomes plausible as ChatGPT / GPT-4 can be connected to data sources for Q&A activities. If the data related to layoffs is accessible by the AI, it's possible that an employee could get an answer to their question. You should take great care before connecting it to your own internal data.

Unfortunately hearing ChatGPT, AI and Machine Learning terms thrown about like doubloons at a Mardi Gras parade in the news is giving many organizations FOMO. We'll discuss what you should know before you jump in.

In this session, we'll address:
- What are these technologies and how they will impact you
- How can these technologies be used in your organization
- Data and security considerations
- Preparing for unintended consequences

Join us to learn about this brave new world and how you could apply it in your own work.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI

• Mike Maadarani
• Gokan Ozcifci

Unleash Your Creativity: Design Power Apps Like a Pro with Microsoft Syntex

Transform your Power App design process and drive business results with data from Microsoft Syntex. This AI-powered technology streamlines the data extraction process, providing you with the information you need to create custom Power Apps that meet the unique needs of your organization. With Power Apps, you can focus on designing the app that will deliver real business value, while it takes care of the technical details.

Attend our session to discover how to efficiently extract data with Microsoft Syntex, store it in Dataverse, and manipulate it before creating your Power App.

Say goodbye to manual data extraction and hello to a more efficient, effective Power App design process. Unleash your creativity and take your app design to the next level with Microsoft Syntex.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management
• Power Apps
• Power User
• Syntex

• Prashant G Bhoyar

ChatGPT, Azure Open AI and Power Platform: Better Together

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI has caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. In this demo-driven session, we will cover the key concepts and how organizations can use ChatGPT, Azure Open AI, and Power Platform services to build next-gen enterprise-grade applications.

We will cover :
- Azure Open AI Key Concepts
- ChatGPT key concepts
- Co-Pilots in the Power Platform
- How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Power Platform?
- How organizations can build next-gen enterprise-grade apps using ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI, and Power Platform services?

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents

• Mike Maadarani
• Gokan Ozcifci

Streamline data creation using Power Automate and Microsoft Syntex

Unleash the full potential of your data creation process with Power Automate and Microsoft Syntex. Say goodbye to manual tasks and hello to automation. Power Automate provides a simple yet powerful interface to create custom workflows that streamline your data creation process.

Microsoft Syntex, on the other hand, utilizes AI to extract valuable information from unstructured sources and categorize it for you. With these tools working together, you'll see improved accuracy, efficiency, and an overall increase in productivity.

Join our session to learn how to upgrade your data creation process today with Power Automate and Microsoft Syntex.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power Automate
• Syntex

• William Huneycutt

Microsoft 365 and OpenAI - the future is now!

The future of the modern workplace is now with Microsoft 365 and OpenAI! In this session you'll learn how OpenAI can be integrated with Microsoft 365 to streamline your business processes, automate tasks, improve workflows, and increase productivity while saving time and effort.

You'll explore how to use Microsoft's new Bing powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT to get more relevant, up-to-date, and annotated search results using natural language chat. You'll learn how to use the new Bing and OpenAI to help you write emails, summarize documents, create presentations, and more in Microsoft 365 apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Microsoft Edge.

The future of the modern workplace is here! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how Microsoft 365 and OpenAI can help you achieve more with less effort! With lots of demos and practical tips, you'll leave with a solid understanding of how to use Microsoft 365 and OpenAI to maximize your productivity.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Power User

• Cathy Dew

SharePoint in the AI Era: Introducing Copilot in SharePoint

Join in to hear and see the future vision of SharePoint from the user experience (UX) perspective. You'll hear both now and future context, a peek behind how Microsoft plans to evolve SharePoint design, and best practices when creating and building gorgeous sites and pages for communication creators and consumers alike. One not to miss if you want to get clarity on where SharePoint is heading next.

• Intermediate
• AI/OpenAI
• Copilot
• SP Development

• Stephanie Donahue

Rethinking Information Architecture in the Era of Microsoft 365 Copilot

With the introduction of Microsoft 365 Copilot, it's tempting to think that information architecture is no longer relevant. After all, Copilot promises to find all your information effortlessly, acting as your personal assistant.

However, we need to consider potential challenges. What if Copilot leads users to sensitive content accidentally? Have we adequately secured our environment in our rush to enable remote work? Additionally, how valuable is the content returned in search queries? Is it time to revisit site lifecycle management and retention to optimize Copilot's performance?

Join this session as we discuss strategies to prepare your M365 environment for the future, ensuring seamless engagement with Microsoft 365 Copilot while addressing critical information architecture considerations.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management
• Copilot

• Amarender Peddamalku

Automate content processing using AI & SharePoint Syntex

We'll learn how to use SharePoint Syntex that uses advanced AI and machine teaching to amplify human expertise, automate content processing, and transform content into knowledge.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Business Value
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Syntex

• Matt Meyer
• Alex Drozd

Using Power Apps as A Rapidly Deployable Front End for Open AI

In this session we will go over how to configure create a custom connector that accesses Microsoft Cognitive Services Face API. We will then build a Power App that will be used to configure and train face models and be used for facial recognition.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Power Platform

• Stephen Rose

The future of AI and Microsoft 365

With the release of Chat GPT, Co-Pilot and so many other tools, understanding how to pilot, deploy, manage, and secure these tools is critical.

In this session we will demonstrate the top 10 AI tools available and discuss how to approach using them in your environment securely.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI

• Chris McNulty

Introducing Microsoft Syntex – Content AI for the Microsoft Cloud

Every week, our customers add billions of documents to Microsoft 365. That content is essential to your organization - carrying knowledge, decisions, and transactions that are vital to the flow of work. To maximize the value of your Microsoft 365 content, Microsoft Syntex brings management, advanced AI, and automation together to simplify the way you work. Join us to learn more about this new category and hear how Syntex can help you discover, manage, and secure your organization's content in the Microsoft Cloud and beyond.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Syntex

• Christopher Rousset

Maximizing Microsoft Teams for Training & Compliance

Traditional enterprise learning management systems are designed to deliver and monitor a diverse array of learning activities. However, these conventional learning solutions often operate as standalone systems, remaining detached from the digital communication and collaboration hubs that are integral to daily work routines.

With more than 280 million active users, for many Microsoft Teams is now the cornerstone of their increasingly hybridized workspace. So, the question becomes, how does one bring learning to this pivotal hub.

By seamlessly integrating learning resources within the familiar Microsoft Teams environment, you can significantly boost the effectiveness of knowledge sharing across Microsoft 365 and deepen employee usage across this platform. It's about delivering precisely the right learning materials to the right individuals at precisely the right moment in their workflow.

Join our session where we'll unveil:
- How you can effortlessly embed learning experiences directly into Microsoft Teams
- How to get the data you need to track and report training progress
- What this means for overall employee success and productivity at your organization
- Real-life success stories

Harness the power of Microsoft Teams and unlock new avenues for efficiency, productivity, compliance, and collaborative learning.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User
• Solution Showcase

• Corey Roth

Winning SPFx development with GitHub Copilot

The demand for cutting edge SharePoint Framework (SPFx) solutions is more than ever. Why not let a tool help you get more done in less time? With GitHub Copilot, you will see how it can provide legitimate code snippet suggestions to get common tasks done in your web part and Microsoft Teams development.

You'll be amazed at the quality of the suggestions and how it understands your code and adapts to your naming conventions and recognizes patterns in how you personally write code. I've been using GitHub Copilot for months now and it's a must-have in my development toolbox now.

If you're looking to save time in your development cycle, you need to attend this session and see firsthand how GitHub Copilot is worth every penny.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Copilot
• SP Development

• Craig Jahnke

Governance for AI Builder

Overall, AI Builder governance aims to help organizations effectively manage their use of AI technology while ensuring that they adhere to legal and ethical standards. By implementing appropriate governance measures, organizations can mitigate risks and ensure that their AI solutions are used to drive business value without compromising privacy, security, or compliance requirements.

This session focuses on best practices for managing the use of AI Builder within an organization. We will covers topics such as compliance, security, and privacy considerations when implementing AI models using AI Builder.

Participants will learn how to establish policies and procedures for data management, model development, and deployment to ensure that AI solutions are developed in a responsible and ethical manner. The session will also include discussions on how to create roles and permissions for AI Builder users to control access to sensitive data and model development features.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI

• Martina Grom
• Toni Pohl

Better together: Viva Connections and the Power Platform

In this session Martina and Toni will take a look on how to implement Viva Connections. With the powerful toolset behind the Power Platform you will learn how to solve business requirements for mobile users.

• Advanced
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Business Value
• Power Platform
• Viva

• Harysh Menon

Teams, Power Automate and Copilot - automate Microsoft 365 like never before!

Learn about the different ways in which your organization can be more productive with Power Automate, M365 and Copilot.

Discover experiences across, SharePoint, Teams, Excel and Windows and Process mining-based insights that help you get time to focus on what's important.

• All
• AI/OpenAI
• Copilot
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power Automate

• Stephanie Donahue

Boosting Employee Development with Viva Goals and Copilot

In today's dynamic work environment, organizations strive to empower their employees' growth and development. Microsoft Viva Goals, a powerful platform within the Microsoft Viva suite, offers a comprehensive yet user-friendly solution for goal management and tracking within Microsoft 365.

This session dives into the capabilities of Viva Goals and explores how Copilot can augment the goal management experience, leading to improved employee performance and engagement.

Key topics covered in this session include:
* Introduction to Viva Goals
* Leveraging Copilot for Goal Creation
* Goal Tracking and Progress Monitoring
* Strategies for promoting adoption and engagement

Discover how Microsoft Viva Goals and Copilot can accelerate employee development and goal management within Microsoft 365.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Business Value
• Copilot
• Viva

• Mark Rackley

Attainable AI – Real World Artificial Intelligence for Everyone

Why has your organization not embraced AI yet? Cost? Complexity? No perceived business value? Thanks to Azure and Microsoft 365, AI is not only cost-effective (sometimes free) and easy to use, there are many real-world use-case scenarios that you can take advantage of today without having to be a developer.

Attend this demo-packed session to learn how quick and easy it is to get started with AI in your organization to create bots, translate conversations, identify objects in pictures, and more!

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Virtual Agents

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Power Automate for Microsoft 365 Developers

Power Automate helps us to create intelligent automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to get notifications, synchronize files, collect data, and do much more.

Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) has opened Pandora's box of features that developers can use to build real-life enterprise-grade solutions using the low code paradigm. For example, calling the SharePoint REST APIs, calling Microsoft Graph APIs, calling External web services, and integrating with Azure services such as Azure Functions and Azure Dev Ops.

In this demo-driven session, we will cover how developers can use some of the rich feature sets of Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) and build real-life enterprise-grade business applications.

You will learn:
- How to use Azure AI Services like ChatGPT with Power Automate?
- How to consume the REST Endpoints using Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to consume Microsoft Graph APIs using Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to call Azure Function from Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to build enterprise-grade business applications in Microsoft 365 using
- Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to convert Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) to Logic Apps?

• Advanced
• Cloud & OnPrem
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents

• Andrew Connell

Supercharge Microsoft Teams Apps with AI: Building Intelligent Bots & Messaging Extensions

This presentation will cover how to use the Microsoft Teams Conversational SDK AI and Azure OpenAI to incorporate intelligent bots and messaging extensions in Microsoft Teams.

We will explore the development process step-by-step, including how to build and deploy bots and messaging extensions using these technologies.

Whether you're a seasoned developer or new to the game, this breakout session will provide valuable insights into how you can use AI to enhance the functionality of your Teams apps.

• Advanced
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development

• Martina Grom
• Toni Pohl

Unleashing the Power of Adaptive Cards in Viva Connections

In this session, we'll explore the versatility of Adaptive Cards in Microsoft 365, focusing on how they can be leveraged in Viva Connections (and Outlook and Microsoft Teams) to create custom experiences and streamline workflows. We'll explore both low-code and pro-code solutions and demonstrate how they can be used to solve common use cases such as creating interactive forms, notifications, and more.

Additionally, we'll present a decision framework to help determine when custom development is appropriate versus when low-code solutions can be used. This will include an examination of factors such as timeline, budget, technical requirements, and desired outcomes.
 
Key Takeaways:
- Understanding the basics of Adaptive Cards and their capabilities in Viva Connections
- Hands-on demos of low-code solutions for building custom experiences
- A decision framework for choosing between custom development and low-code solutions
- Real-world examples of Adaptive Cards in action
- Best practices for leveraging Adaptive Cards in a Microsoft 365 environment, specifically for Viva Connections.

• Expert
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Business Value
• Power Platform
• Viva

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Hands-On: Azure, Azure OpenAI & ChatGPT For Power Platform Developers Masterclass

Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code platform for rapidly building customized end-to-end business solutions. It consists of five product areas: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages. Each area can be used individually or together. Thanks to native integration with Azure, developers can use their cloud development skills to extend Microsoft Power Platform with different Azure services. With a low-code integrated development approach, business goals can be achieved faster and free up time for the developers.

In this hands-on workshop, we will cover how to use Azure for custom development in Microsoft Platform services like Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Virtual Agents, Dataverse, and Power BI.

We will cover:
• Microsoft Azure Key Concepts
• How does Power Platform use Azure?
• How can fusion teams take advantage of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?
• Authentication and Authorization in Azure
• Azure + Power Automate
• Azure + Power Apps
• Azure + Power Pages
• Azure + Power Virtual Agents
• Azure + Power BI
• Azure + Dataverse
• Azure OpenAI + Power Platform
• ChatGPT + Power Platform
• What are Azure Functions?
• What are Logic Apps?
• What is Azure Bot Service?
• How to create an enterprise-grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of Azure and how to use it to implement the customizations in the Microsoft Power Platform.

Access to Azure, Azure Open AI, and Microsoft Power Platform ( Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power BI ) will be provided to create the customization. The target audience of this hands-on workshop is Developers, Power Users, and IT Pros who want to get into development.

Please note: Attendees will need to bring their laptops with internet access and modern browsers like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. The tablets will not work.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power BI
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform Better Together

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI has caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. In this demo-driven workshop, Microsoft Business Applications and AI MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer Prashant G Bhoyar will cover how organizations can use Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform services to build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement.

We will cover :
• The new and improved Power Virtual Agents key concepts
• Copilot in Power Virtual Agents
• Azure Open AI Key Concepts
• ChatGPT key concepts
• How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Power Platform?
• Authentication and Authorization in Azure
• Azure API Management
• Azure Communication Services
• Power Platform Custom Connectors
• Azure Open AI + Power Virtual Agents
• ChatGPT + Power Virtual Agents
• How organizations can build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement with Power Virtual Agents, Azure, Power Platform, ChatGPT, and Azure Open AI

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of how to build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement with Power Virtual Agents, Azure, Power Platform, ChatGPT, and Azure Open AI.

• Advanced
• Cloud & OnPrem
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents
• N/A

• Corey Roth

Building solutions for Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and Office.com with SharePoint Framework

The SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is a development toolkit for building apps and web parts for Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Adaptive Cards, and Office.com.

In this session, attendees will learn how to use the SPFx to create custom solutions for these platforms. We will cover the basics of setting up an SPFx development environment, including how to create a new project and configure it to work with Teams, Outlook, and Office.com.

We will also discuss how to use Adaptive Cards to create interactive and dynamic user interfaces for these platforms. Finally, we will demonstrate how to deploy and test SPFx apps in a real-world scenario.

Attendees will leave this session with the knowledge and skills needed to start building custom solutions for Teams, Outlook, Adaptive Cards, and Office.com using the SharePoint Framework.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Azure/o365 Development
• SP Development

• John White
• Jason Himmelstein

Azure Monitor, Azure Data Explorer and Power BI, Oh My!

Log Analytics and Application Insights are increasingly becoming the storage mechanism of choice for telemetry data. At its core is Azure Data Explorer (ADX) or "Kusto", and the KQL language for analysis, which can also be used independently. Power BI is of course the standard for data analysis and reporting in the Microsoft ecosystem.

It's easy enough for Power BI to report on Log Analytics and ADX data, but the devil is in the details. When should you use native KQL Queries? When should you use Direct Query? What about Hybrid tables and aggregations?

This session will dive deeply into the nuances of reporting on both Log Analytics and ADX data with Power BI.

• Advanced
• Cloud
• Azure/o365 Development
• Power BI

• Andrew Connell

GitHub Actions: Tips, Tricks, & Best Practices for your Microsoft 365 and Azure Projects

GitHub Actions enable developers to automate repetitive and complex manual tasks.

In this session, you'll learn how you can use GitHub Actions to create automation workflows including robust CI & CD processes to build, test & deploy solutions. But we won’t stop there.

Learn how to instrument all sorts of things, optimize your workflows, deploy Azure resources with zero credentials, create custom actions, and more! Regardless if you’re building SharePoint Framework projects, Azure solutions, or something else.

• Advanced
• Cloud
• Azure/o365 Development

• Julie Turner

Organizational Tools & Resources: Configuration thru Customization

Your intranet is the entry point to all your company tools and resources. This can be anything from an external website or solution, a custom application, etc. How to centralize all these different tools and applications is one of the most common questions Sympraxis Consulting gets from clients.

Typically, organizations will manually add links to these resources using various web parts across many sites. There is no way out of the box to search your environment for these links. This introduces individual management of enterprise resources, which can cause challenges when there are company changes.

For example, if your company uses Workday for their finances but then decides to switch to Oracle, you’ll have to manually adjust all the different links to Workday within your intranet. If all those links are centralized it is scalable and much easier to manage as the owner of that link can instead edit in one place and have it reflected everywhere.

 
In this session, we'll take a holistic view of the technology through the lens of the Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 and gain an understanding of current state vs. desired state can help organizations in these important ways:
- Define current state and limitations with out of the box web parts
- Understand and compare options for solving your organizations quick links issues through extension
- Identify the pros and cons of each approach

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Azure/o365 Development
• Business Value
• Solution Showcase

• Don Kirkham

Connecting SharePoint Framework (SPFx) projects to your data

SPFx can be used to build beautiful, modern solutions for Office 365, Microsoft Teams and Viva, but the usefulness of these solutions is limited if not connected to live data.

We will cover how to connect to SharePoint and Microsoft Graph directly using the REST APIs for each data source. We will then explore how to use PnPJs and the Microsoft Graph toolkit (MGT) to simplify and accelerate both the development and performance of our SPFx solutions.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Azure/o365 Development
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• SP Development

• Martina Grom
• Toni Pohl

Better together: Viva Connections and the Power Platform

In this session Martina and Toni will take a look on how to implement Viva Connections. With the powerful toolset behind the Power Platform you will learn how to solve business requirements for mobile users.

• Advanced
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Business Value
• Power Platform
• Viva

• Julie Turner

Level up workflow with Webhooks

Mature organizations that use Microsoft 365 often need to run custom workflows when events happen in Microsoft 365, like updating list items, adding users, updating groups, or changing files.

When there's only a single list or library, or other single event items, it can make sense to use a tool like Power Automate or an Azure Logic Apps.

However, these tools require connecting a workflow to a specific entity (list, library, drive) making these solutions difficult to manage when there are many of the same types of items to monitor. Enter stage left: Webhooks.

To be clear, webhooks are not a power user tool; they require the ability to architect and manage cloud resources and write enterprise level code. But the benefits and scalability make it well worth the time investment! In this session you'll learn about:
- What webhooks are and what are some of the common use cases they can help solve
- What common architectural pattern for managing your subscriptions and events looks like
- What cloud services are commonly used to support the common architecture
- What boilerplate code looks like to establish and manage subscriptions and react to event notifications
- Where and how you might implement custom handlers for establishing what subscriptions are needed and what happens when an event is fired.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn how to manage workflows at scale to reduce risk and simplify management!

• Advanced
• Cloud
• Azure/o365 Development

• Kartik Kanakasabesan

Azure, Visual Studio and Power Platform

In this session, how you as a developer using Azure, Visual Studio, and Power Platform, build rich applications and the experiences to help you accelerate building such applications, quicker, faster, and better

• Intermediate
• Azure/o365 Development
• Power Platform

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Power Automate for Microsoft 365 Developers

Power Automate helps us to create intelligent automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to get notifications, synchronize files, collect data, and do much more.

Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) has opened Pandora's box of features that developers can use to build real-life enterprise-grade solutions using the low code paradigm. For example, calling the SharePoint REST APIs, calling Microsoft Graph APIs, calling External web services, and integrating with Azure services such as Azure Functions and Azure Dev Ops.

In this demo-driven session, we will cover how developers can use some of the rich feature sets of Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) and build real-life enterprise-grade business applications.

You will learn:
- How to use Azure AI Services like ChatGPT with Power Automate?
- How to consume the REST Endpoints using Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to consume Microsoft Graph APIs using Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to call Azure Function from Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to build enterprise-grade business applications in Microsoft 365 using
- Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to convert Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) to Logic Apps?

• Advanced
• Cloud & OnPrem
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents

• Andrew Connell

Supercharge Microsoft Teams Apps with AI: Building Intelligent Bots & Messaging Extensions

This presentation will cover how to use the Microsoft Teams Conversational SDK AI and Azure OpenAI to incorporate intelligent bots and messaging extensions in Microsoft Teams.

We will explore the development process step-by-step, including how to build and deploy bots and messaging extensions using these technologies.

Whether you're a seasoned developer or new to the game, this breakout session will provide valuable insights into how you can use AI to enhance the functionality of your Teams apps.

• Advanced
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development

• Julie Turner

Building code libraries for use with SharePoint Framework solutions

The SharePoint framework introduced 'libraries' as a project type, and although useful for very small development projects not ideal for bigger enterprise solutions and ALM strategies.

This session is going to cover end to end building a library with standard web-based building blocks, using Azure Dev Ops to create a private code artifact, and then consuming that library and others together within a SharePoint framework solution while hosting the artifacts in an Azure CDN (or bundling it in if that's more appropriate).

This is powerful reusability that allow you to manage the lifecycle of different components in a way that mimics all the other packages you might consume when building your solution.

• Advanced
• Cloud
• Azure/o365 Development

• Martina Grom
• Toni Pohl

Unleashing the Power of Adaptive Cards in Viva Connections

In this session, we'll explore the versatility of Adaptive Cards in Microsoft 365, focusing on how they can be leveraged in Viva Connections (and Outlook and Microsoft Teams) to create custom experiences and streamline workflows. We'll explore both low-code and pro-code solutions and demonstrate how they can be used to solve common use cases such as creating interactive forms, notifications, and more.

Additionally, we'll present a decision framework to help determine when custom development is appropriate versus when low-code solutions can be used. This will include an examination of factors such as timeline, budget, technical requirements, and desired outcomes.
 
Key Takeaways:
- Understanding the basics of Adaptive Cards and their capabilities in Viva Connections
- Hands-on demos of low-code solutions for building custom experiences
- A decision framework for choosing between custom development and low-code solutions
- Real-world examples of Adaptive Cards in action
- Best practices for leveraging Adaptive Cards in a Microsoft 365 environment, specifically for Viva Connections.

• Expert
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Business Value
• Power Platform
• Viva

• Nate Chamberlain

Unboxing Microsoft 365: Make the most of your productivity toolbox

Join Microsoft MVP and certified trainer Nate Chamberlain in this full day workshop for newer Microsoft 365 users or evaluators looking to better understand all the possibilities Microsoft 365 brings to your organization.

Attendees will learn about all the apps and latest features in Microsoft 365 that enable both individual and group productivity including SharePoint, Office 365 apps, Outlook, OneDrive, To Do, Teams, Lists, Planner, Viva, and more.

We’ll go beyond definitions to explore specific business use cases, tips, and FAQs such as:
• Microsoft 365 overview: What’s in my toolbox?
• Understand the relationships between apps, and how permissions and Microsoft 365 groups power your modern work
• Co-authoring documents, version history
• Requesting files from others, sharing files, and managing access in OneDrive and SharePoint
• Teams vs SharePoint vs OneDrive
• Teams conversations vs chats vs emails
• How do the newer Viva apps fit in?
& more!

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Not hands-on

• Amarender Peddamalku

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows - Part 1

In every organization there are a number of scenarios which require an Approval process. It could be Contract approvals, PTO/Leave Approvals, Event approvals and many other business processes.

In this workshop we'll learn how to design and develop Multi-Stage Approval Workflows Using Power Automate. The workflow will move back and forth b/w different stages and will also learn how to restart a workflow from a given stage. We'll learn how to include Dynamic Approvers in the workflow process.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Power Automate
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• David Drever
• Joanne Klein

Microsoft 365 Purview: Maintaining and Protecting Your Data Throughout its Lifecycle

In recent years, the amount of digital content moving to the cloud has been dramatic. No doubt, this has made collaboration easier and more versatile, but it's also brought with it a new set of problems, such as oversharing, exfiltration of data, and non-compliant destruction of data. Organizations like yours must ensure data is available when required and protected when sensitive.

In this workshop, your expert presenters will share their collective knowledge and experience with a deep dive into what Microsoft Purview can do, including coverage of features such as Data Lifecycle Management, Records Management, and Microsoft Information Protection.

But it's not all theory. You'll leave the workshop with their recommended approach for implementation using a Day 1/Day 2/Day 3 incremental model that maintains a balance between the user experience and the necessary protections for your organization.

Now's the time to ensure your data is safe from prying eyes. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from two of the best in the industry on exactly how to make that happen.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Content Management
• Intranet & Portals
• Not hands-on

• Sarah Haase

Microsoft 365 User Adoption Master Class

A smooth deployment isn't enough. Driving effective utilization of SharePoint and Microsoft 365 is more than building effective migration strategies, training users on key features or sending out marketing emails. This master class provides a deep-dive on the components of user adoption. You'll learn why user adoption programs succeed and fail, gain practical experience designing adoption strategies and learn how to leverage innovation games to build consensus.

During this workshop, you will:
• Learn the basic foundations of user adoption, including key intrinsic and extrinsic motivators
• Understand how different types of users in your organization can make (or break) your chances of user adoption success
• Understand how innovation games can help drive shared understanding, uncover user requirements and drive engagement/enthusiasm
• Examine real-world user adoption programs and determine how and why they were successful

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Business Value
• Not hands-on

• Amarender Peddamalku

Build external-facing websites using Power Pages

Microsoft Power Pages is a secure, enterprise-grade, low-code software as a service (SaaS) platform for creating, hosting, and administering modern external-facing business websites. Power Pages provides you with rich, customizable templates, a fluid visual experience through a reimagined design studio, and a new, integrated learning hub to quickly build sites that suit your unique business needs.

We'll learn how to create powerful external-facing websites that allow users outside their organizations to sign in with a wide variety of identities, create and view data in Microsoft Dataverse, or even browse content anonymously.

Also, we'll learn to quickly create a website and customize it with pages, layout, and content.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Power Pages
• Power Platform

• Susan Hanley

The Ultimate Shopping List for a Successful Intranet in Microsoft 365

If you are shopping for or planning a new intranet, what capabilities do you need to have? What do you need to think about to ensure that you deliver success? How does Microsoft Teams factor into your intranet? How can Microsoft Viva deliver value for your intranet users? How can the new features introduced for SharePoint, including Copilot, help me advance my intranet outcome goals?

If you are wondering about the answers to these questions and more, this session is for you! We’ll review key concepts, ideas, capabilities, and planning tips to help ensure that your intranet drives value for everyone in the organization.

Whether you are a seasoned intranet professional or just starting your journey, this presentation will provide you with valuable insights and practical guidance on what to include in your ultimate shopping list.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Intranet & Portals

• Peter Carson

Building a Rich People Search with OOTB and Open Source Components

Whenever we poll an organization for the top features for their Intranet, People Search that actually works is always in the top three. You'd think this would have been long solved, but it's often still a challenge for many organizations.

There are a number of reasons for this:
- People data is often spread in many different places and systems in an organization, and there is no single version of the truth
- As a result, Azure AD, which is the core of identity in Microsoft 365, is either not well populated or just plain wrong
- People search and people cards in Microsoft 365 has gotten tremendously better, but it's still not all the way there

With so much of an organization's IP and knowledge actually in the heads of the people, finding a person or expert is key to success for the organization as a whole.

In this session we'll go over a series of steps any organization can take to get a handle on their people in Microsoft 365, and provide a simple and rich experience for finding the right person at the right time.

- Review of Azure AD identities and how they are managed
* Synced users from on-premises AD with Azure AD Connect
* Cloud only identities
* What IT manages, and what users or the business can self-manage
- Other sources of truth, and how they can be synced to Azure AD
* HRIS, payroll
* Customizing and extending Azure AD with additional attributes specific to the organization
* Easily deploying and configuring an open-source, rich people search web part that can be used organization wide or within departments or business units
- https://github.com/YannickRe/spfx-msgraph-peoplesearch
- Building fully-customized person pages and self-managed profile pages

We'll also share real-world examples of this in use for a municipal police force, large charity, and post-secondary college.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Search

• Joanne Klein

Exploring Microsoft Syntex Document Processing from Start to Finish

Microsoft Syntex marks a significant stride in the intelligent classification of SharePoint content. At the heart of Syntex lies document processing models to effectively assist in managing content. The modern workplace generates vast amounts of unstructured content, which demands large-scale management through automatic structuring, including metadata and content types, and governance, such as security and compliance controls. Fortunately, Microsoft Syntex offers precisely that, and much more!

To showcase this novel capability, Joanne will explain all Syntex model types and provide use-cases for each one. She'll then conduct a live demo to highlight the creation of a Microsoft Syntex unstructured document processing model to efficiently classify SharePoint documents and then integrate it with Power Automate and Syntex Content Assembly to automatically generate related documents using a Syntex modern template!. The walkthrough will cover the complete end-to-end process from setup to model training and deployment.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Content Management
• Power Automate
• Syntex

• Amarender Peddamalku

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows

In this session we’ll learn how to design and develop Multi-Stage Approval Workflows Using Power Automate.

We will also learn how to restart the workflow from a given stage and how to include Dynamic Approvers. We'll dig into how to design and develop Automated escalations and Automated reminders. We will also learn how to log workflow history and ways to retain the history indefinitely.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Power Automate

• Julie Turner

Organizational Tools & Resources: Configuration thru Customization

Your intranet is the entry point to all your company tools and resources. This can be anything from an external website or solution, a custom application, etc. How to centralize all these different tools and applications is one of the most common questions Sympraxis Consulting gets from clients.

Typically, organizations will manually add links to these resources using various web parts across many sites. There is no way out of the box to search your environment for these links. This introduces individual management of enterprise resources, which can cause challenges when there are company changes.

For example, if your company uses Workday for their finances but then decides to switch to Oracle, you’ll have to manually adjust all the different links to Workday within your intranet. If all those links are centralized it is scalable and much easier to manage as the owner of that link can instead edit in one place and have it reflected everywhere.

 
In this session, we'll take a holistic view of the technology through the lens of the Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 and gain an understanding of current state vs. desired state can help organizations in these important ways:
- Define current state and limitations with out of the box web parts
- Understand and compare options for solving your organizations quick links issues through extension
- Identify the pros and cons of each approach

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Azure/o365 Development
• Business Value
• Solution Showcase

• Amit Vasu

Elevate Your Virtual Engagement: A Deep Dive into Teams Live Events

Microsoft Teams live events offer unparalleled flexibility if you're considering organizing an online event with a substantial audience.

Join this session to explore the essentials of getting started with Teams Live Events, discover valuable Tips and Tricks for optimizing your event experience, and explore the vast array of administrative settings at your disposal when utilizing Teams Live Events.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User

• Stephen Rose

Real World Tips and Tricks for Driving Software Deployment

What do companies like Lego, AEG, Polaris, Takeda, and the Special Olympics have in common? They all have useful tips and tricks around driving internal usage of software to help them move from synchronous work to asynchronous work.

In this session we will hear from those customers and learn how they drove success in their organizations and how you can as well.

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Business Value
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User

• Liam Cleary

Data Security: It's Not Just for IT Anymore

Data security is more important than ever before. As businesses and individuals move more of their data to the cloud, protecting it from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction is essential.

In this session, we will focus on data security for end users in Microsoft 365. We will discuss the common threats to data security and the security features available in Microsoft 365 to help protect your data. We will also share tips and advice on how to use these features effectively.

By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Understand the importance of data security and the common threats to data security
- Identify the key data security features in Microsoft 365
- Learn how to use Microsoft 365 security features to protect your data
- Implement best practices for data security in your workplace

This session is ideal for end users in Microsoft 365 who want to learn more about how to protect their data. No prior knowledge of data security is required.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Power User

• Amarender Peddamalku

Automate content processing using AI & SharePoint Syntex

We'll learn how to use SharePoint Syntex that uses advanced AI and machine teaching to amplify human expertise, automate content processing, and transform content into knowledge.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Business Value
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Syntex

• Amit Vasu

Unearthing the power of Microsoft Teams Room

In this transformative era of meetings, the fusion of physical and digital spaces offers unparalleled opportunities for innovation, connection, and productivity.

This session will cover how Microsoft Teams Rooms revolutionizes how we work by providing advanced, interactive, and captivating meeting spaces that cater to the needs of hybrid work environments.

You will leave this session learning how to create an engaging, inclusive meeting room atmosphere that fosters collaboration and teamwork among remote and in-person participants.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Business Value
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User
• Not hands-on

• Bart Peluso

Brewing Beer with IDP, Machine Learning & RPA

Attention technologists & beer drinkers: In this unique session we'll look at how one of the nation's largest independent breweries improved their business & their beer with state-of-the-art document technologies integrated into Microsoft SharePoint. Bring your intellect & your questions. You just might win some cool NBB swag!

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Content Management
• Search
• Solution Showcase

• Matt Lavieri
• Darren Kraut

Building a Roadmap to Safeguard Your Data with Microsoft Purview

In today's ever-evolving landscape, safeguarding your data goes beyond meeting internal security benchmarks—it's about staying ahead of emerging compliance and privacy demands. Join our distinguished Microsoft Purview experts in this session where we dive deep into the capabilities of Microsoft Purview. Discover how to not only comprehend these capabilities but also leverage them to construct a strategic roadmap for deploying and harnessing Purview's potential, all in the service of enhancing your Data Protection, Risk, and Compliance Programs. This actionable roadmap is designed to outline the vision, strategy and high-level timeline for success and includes an assessment of organizational priorities and current state of data protection technology.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Solution Showcase

• Samuel Martineau

Can security and productivity coexist in Microsoft 365?

As end users gain greater autonomy within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, adapting to this shift and finding effective ways to manage collaboration seamlessly and securely is essential. Now is the time to embrace change and address the challenges head-on.

In this session, our esteemed Solutions Architect, Samuel Martineau, delves into the practical insights needed to navigate this changing landscape through governance. From user adoption, sprawl, shadow IT, security, and management concerns, Samuel provides valuable strategies to maintain control without panicking.

This session is a must-attend for anyone seeking to optimize Microsoft 365 while ensuring security and productivity coexist—this is how great IT teams evolve!

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Microsoft Teams Admin
• Microsoft Teams Adoption

• Michelle Gilbert

Modern Work Architecture - From the Core to Professional Self

Learn how Microsoft is empowering employee experiences at the core, creativity of personal and team productivity, connection to community and leaders, and your professional experiences.

You will walk away with a new sense of Modern Work Architecture that envisions where work gets done and what matters to you and employees you may support.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Power User

• Peter Carson

Teams First Information Architecture and Governance

When planning out or updating a Microsoft 365 implementation, SharePoint is still important, but it really needs to start with Teams, and then the underlying SharePoint structure for a big part flows out of that. It's not just answering planning questions, but also ensuring that everyone understands that Teams is much more than a meeting and chat platform.

Topics we'll cover in this session include:
- Introducing a maturity model on how organizations leverage Teams,
- SharePoint, Email, and OneDrive
- Level setting on how they work together
- Understanding the differences between Standard, Private, and Shared
- Channels, and the underlying SharePoint site collections
- Where do standalone Communication and Team Sites fit into the Teams and SharePoint structure
-Guests versus B2B Direct Connect in Teams, and external sharing in SharePoint
- Open source scripts and Power BI dashboards to inventory and analyze your file shares, SharePoint on-premises, and SharePoint Online
- Answering the question - what does a Team and a Channel represent in my organization
- MindJet as a tool for planning your IA
- Commercial and open-source solutions for implementing your IA
Real-world scenarios and case studies

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Content Management
• Microsoft Teams Adoption

• Ralph Rivas

Understanding Power Platform licensing

Get under the covers and find out what all this great functionality may cost by diving into the latest Microsoft information on licensing when using the the Power Platform.

This session is updated monthly with each publication of the latest Power Platform licensing guidance and also includes Roadmap changes that are publicly declared.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents

• Martina Grom
• Toni Pohl

Better together: Viva Connections and the Power Platform

In this session Martina and Toni will take a look on how to implement Viva Connections. With the powerful toolset behind the Power Platform you will learn how to solve business requirements for mobile users.

• Advanced
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Business Value
• Power Platform
• Viva

• Corey Roth

Case Study: Launching a modern Intranet when stakeholders won't engage

When you want to launch a global Intranet on top of Microsoft 365, you need to engage the right stakeholders before you ever get started. What do you do it no one will engage and take ownership?

This session talks about the steps we took to remove the road blocks to launch a successful Intranet. In the early days of SharePoint, some of us failed because they took a "build it and they will come" approach. However, SharePoint is different now. Building an Intranet doesn't require months of planning and development. You can mock up concept pages very quickly now which are visually engaging.

In this session, you'll lean how we build SharePoint sites directly with our stakeholders and drove adoption like never before. If you're struggling to get your Intranet off the ground, this session is for you.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Content Management
• Intranet & Portals

• Stephanie Donahue

Boosting Employee Development with Viva Goals and Copilot

In today's dynamic work environment, organizations strive to empower their employees' growth and development. Microsoft Viva Goals, a powerful platform within the Microsoft Viva suite, offers a comprehensive yet user-friendly solution for goal management and tracking within Microsoft 365.

This session dives into the capabilities of Viva Goals and explores how Copilot can augment the goal management experience, leading to improved employee performance and engagement.

Key topics covered in this session include:
* Introduction to Viva Goals
* Leveraging Copilot for Goal Creation
* Goal Tracking and Progress Monitoring
* Strategies for promoting adoption and engagement

Discover how Microsoft Viva Goals and Copilot can accelerate employee development and goal management within Microsoft 365.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Business Value
• Copilot
• Viva

• Jeff Willinger

Using Viva Connections and Topics to Build a World Class Employee Experience

Microsoft Viva Connections and Topics are the new gateway to a modern employee experience designed to keep everyone engaged and informed. Viva Connections and Topics are customizable apps in Microsoft Teams that gives everyone a personalized destination to discover relevant news, conversations, and the tools they need to succeed.

This session will do a deep dive into how to get started and actual use cases to build the story on how to improve the employee experience at your organizations.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Viva

• Daniel Glenn

Enhance Your Intranet with Viva Dashboard Cards

In today's fast-paced business world, an effective intranet is essential for staying connected and productive. The Viva Connections Dashboard enhances every employee's experience by delivering flexible and dynamic information in their flow of work. Using the Dashboard's adaptive cards, we can bring a customized experience for each user. Creating adaptive cards that bring value to your users can start with simple, no-code solutions. Developers can also create cards to connect to data sources and bring enhanced functionality by creating complex integrations.

In this session we will discuss how to create true, no code solutions in the Viva Connections Dashboard, as well as low and full code adaptive cards. Learn how to create and customize adaptive cards, as well as best practices for integrating them into intranets. By the end of the session, attendees will have a better understanding of how to use adaptive cards to improve their intranet and make it more engaging and user-friendly.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Intranet & Portals
• Viva
• N/A

• Asif Rehmani

Viva Learning, Learning Pathways, DAP, LMS: How to Setup Your Organizational Learning Strategy

Classroom training, Viva Learning, LMS, DAP… There are so many types of learning platforms and methodologies available these days that organizations are finding themselves confused as to what they should use and what they should ignore.

This session will provide the guidance you need to bridge the gap between all of these learning solutions and methodologies so you know exactly how you can implement a seamless blended learning experience for your team.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Business Value
• Viva
• Not hands-on

• Susan Hanley

How to leverage Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Viva to improve employee communications and engagement

Microsoft Viva provides critical applications and experiences to improve employee engagement and connection. New features and capabilities provide opportunities to ensure that your employees are both connected and engaged, no matter where they work.

In this session, you will learn practical approaches for employee communications in Microsoft 365 – from SharePoint news to the personalized Viva Connections feed in Teams to Yammer, Viva Engage, and Viva Amplify.

Take away insights into what you need to know about what is possible, what is coming, and how to improve communication and engagement outcomes with Microsoft Viva and Microsoft 365.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Intranet & Portals
• Viva

• Craig Jahnke

ALM for Power Apps and Power Automate

Everyone talks about "No Code" or "Low Code" solutions and how easy they are to build. What nobody talks about is ALM (Application Lifecycle Management). Come to this sessions to learn about how to manage permissions and govern the environment and the solutions your users are creating.

We also will cover the Importing and Exporting packages and solutions, the Power Platform Center of Excellence, and using tools such as PowerShell, GitHub, and Power Platform Build Tools for Azure DevOps.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Not hands-on

• Martina Grom
• Toni Pohl

Unleashing the Power of Adaptive Cards in Viva Connections

In this session, we'll explore the versatility of Adaptive Cards in Microsoft 365, focusing on how they can be leveraged in Viva Connections (and Outlook and Microsoft Teams) to create custom experiences and streamline workflows. We'll explore both low-code and pro-code solutions and demonstrate how they can be used to solve common use cases such as creating interactive forms, notifications, and more.

Additionally, we'll present a decision framework to help determine when custom development is appropriate versus when low-code solutions can be used. This will include an examination of factors such as timeline, budget, technical requirements, and desired outcomes.
 
Key Takeaways:
- Understanding the basics of Adaptive Cards and their capabilities in Viva Connections
- Hands-on demos of low-code solutions for building custom experiences
- A decision framework for choosing between custom development and low-code solutions
- Real-world examples of Adaptive Cards in action
- Best practices for leveraging Adaptive Cards in a Microsoft 365 environment, specifically for Viva Connections.

• Expert
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Business Value
• Power Platform
• Viva

• David Drever
• Joanne Klein

Microsoft 365 Purview: Maintaining and Protecting Your Data Throughout its Lifecycle

In recent years, the amount of digital content moving to the cloud has been dramatic. No doubt, this has made collaboration easier and more versatile, but it's also brought with it a new set of problems, such as oversharing, exfiltration of data, and non-compliant destruction of data. Organizations like yours must ensure data is available when required and protected when sensitive.

In this workshop, your expert presenters will share their collective knowledge and experience with a deep dive into what Microsoft Purview can do, including coverage of features such as Data Lifecycle Management, Records Management, and Microsoft Information Protection.

But it's not all theory. You'll leave the workshop with their recommended approach for implementation using a Day 1/Day 2/Day 3 incremental model that maintains a balance between the user experience and the necessary protections for your organization.

Now's the time to ensure your data is safe from prying eyes. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from two of the best in the industry on exactly how to make that happen.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Content Management
• Intranet & Portals
• Not hands-on

• Drew Madelung

Introduction to Microsoft Syntex

Microsoft Syntex brings advanced content AI solutions into your existing Microsoft 365 investment but is it something that will help you?

In this session, we will go through what Microsoft Syntex is, how it works, and why it could be an important part of your enterprise in Microsoft 365.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management

• Tamara Bredemus

Metadata Rules. Folders Drool

When you start using SharePoint everyone says, "Don't use folders." If that is true, how do we organize and find the stuff we put into SharePoint? Metadata.

In this session, we will explore what metadata is, how to use it, and how to get our co-workers to use it. Recreate this demo when you get back to the office to win your users over to the metadata side.

This demo works in SharePoint Online and On-Premises.

Key Take Aways:
- What is metadata?
- When to use metadata
- Choices for metadata
- When to use folders

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Content Management

• Mike Maadarani
• Gokan Ozcifci

Unleash Your Creativity: Design Power Apps Like a Pro with Microsoft Syntex

Transform your Power App design process and drive business results with data from Microsoft Syntex. This AI-powered technology streamlines the data extraction process, providing you with the information you need to create custom Power Apps that meet the unique needs of your organization. With Power Apps, you can focus on designing the app that will deliver real business value, while it takes care of the technical details.

Attend our session to discover how to efficiently extract data with Microsoft Syntex, store it in Dataverse, and manipulate it before creating your Power App.

Say goodbye to manual data extraction and hello to a more efficient, effective Power App design process. Unleash your creativity and take your app design to the next level with Microsoft Syntex.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management
• Power Apps
• Power User
• Syntex

• David Drever

You Have Sensitive Information. Now Let's Protect It.

Every organization has data considered sensitive to their business, employees, or even the industry they exist within. In 2022, over 1800 organizations reported data breaches in the U.S. alone, affecting over 400 million individuals. As a result, protecting its data has become a priority for many organizations worldwide. Microsoft provides several tools for identifying sensitive information within the organization and protecting it from being provided to sources that should not have it.

In this session, we'll cover features and processes such as Microsoft Information Protection (MIP), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and more to help you protect your organization's sensitive information from leaving your control and falling into the hands of those that should not have it.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Content Management
• Not hands-on

• Mike Maadarani
• Gokan Ozcifci

Streamline data creation using Power Automate and Microsoft Syntex

Unleash the full potential of your data creation process with Power Automate and Microsoft Syntex. Say goodbye to manual tasks and hello to automation. Power Automate provides a simple yet powerful interface to create custom workflows that streamline your data creation process.

Microsoft Syntex, on the other hand, utilizes AI to extract valuable information from unstructured sources and categorize it for you. With these tools working together, you'll see improved accuracy, efficiency, and an overall increase in productivity.

Join our session to learn how to upgrade your data creation process today with Power Automate and Microsoft Syntex.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power Automate
• Syntex

• Brian Alderman

Data recovery options for SharePoint/OneDrive

SharePoint and OneDrive include several content recovery options for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business administrators, site collection administrators, and end users. Educating your end users on SharePoint recovery options like the site recycle bin, versioning, and site collection recycle bin can lighten the burden on your admins.

Using either a GUI or PowerShell you can backup and restore your entire SharePoint Server farm or components of it. In SharePoint Server you can also perform more granular content backups by exporting site collections, site, libraries, and lists, and there are options for recovering these site collections, sites, lists and libraries from content databases that are no longer part of your SharePoint Server farm.

With a vast majority of your SharePoint Server content stored in SQL Server it is imperative that you have an efficient way to recover items or entire databases as quickly as possible.

This discussion will introduce the Best Practices framework that will allow your SharePoint Server administrators to configure SharePoint as well as SQL Server for quick content recovery, minimizing the downtime and providing shorter and achievable Service Level Agreements (SLA’s).

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Admin/Implementation
• Content Management
• OneDrive

• Joanne Klein

Exploring Microsoft Syntex Document Processing from Start to Finish

Microsoft Syntex marks a significant stride in the intelligent classification of SharePoint content. At the heart of Syntex lies document processing models to effectively assist in managing content. The modern workplace generates vast amounts of unstructured content, which demands large-scale management through automatic structuring, including metadata and content types, and governance, such as security and compliance controls. Fortunately, Microsoft Syntex offers precisely that, and much more!

To showcase this novel capability, Joanne will explain all Syntex model types and provide use-cases for each one. She'll then conduct a live demo to highlight the creation of a Microsoft Syntex unstructured document processing model to efficiently classify SharePoint documents and then integrate it with Power Automate and Syntex Content Assembly to automatically generate related documents using a Syntex modern template!. The walkthrough will cover the complete end-to-end process from setup to model training and deployment.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Content Management
• Power Automate
• Syntex

• Stephanie Donahue

Rethinking Information Architecture in the Era of Microsoft 365 Copilot

With the introduction of Microsoft 365 Copilot, it's tempting to think that information architecture is no longer relevant. After all, Copilot promises to find all your information effortlessly, acting as your personal assistant.

However, we need to consider potential challenges. What if Copilot leads users to sensitive content accidentally? Have we adequately secured our environment in our rush to enable remote work? Additionally, how valuable is the content returned in search queries? Is it time to revisit site lifecycle management and retention to optimize Copilot's performance?

Join this session as we discuss strategies to prepare your M365 environment for the future, ensuring seamless engagement with Microsoft 365 Copilot while addressing critical information architecture considerations.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management
• Copilot

• Sarah Haase

Building your organizational home site & hubs strategy

It's a flat new world in SharePoint. We've moved on from classic and hierarchical site collections and built an array of modern sites. But how do we organize our content, sites, and intranets in this new world?

This session introduces home sites and hubs and provides guidance on how to build a strong content management strategy for their use. We'll define what home sites and hubs are, lay the conceptual groundwork for understanding their use, and provide a creative new way of conceptualizing the logical ties between your myriad of flat SharePoint sites.

We’ll also discuss how Viva Connections plays into our intranet and home site strategy.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Content Management
• Intranet & Portals

• Mark Kashman

What's new in OneDrive

Learn about and see demos of the new features coming to OneDrive that will enhance sharing, collaboration, offline use, and more. You'll get the latest news, roadmap, plus a few tips and tricks along the way.

• All
• Cloud
• Content Management
• OneDrive

• Tamara Bredemus

Content Types: Easier Than the Theory of Relativity

Everyone talks about them, but what the heck are they and how can I use them? We will start with some demos of how to use custom content types, then on to what the heck are content types anyway and we will end with another demo to build content types in the browser.

Key Takeaways:
1) What are content types?
2) Planning content types
3) Creating site columns
4) Creating content types
5) Using content types

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Content Management
• Not hands-on

• Liz Sundet

What is Viva Amplify

Viva Amplify is one of the newest experiences within the Viva family. Learn how you can orchestrate all of your communications from one central location.

Understand what features are available to make your campaigns engaging to end users with this new tool. Find out what scenarios you can use to get started and other adoption resources to make it successful.

You will walk away from this session with a good understanding of Viva Amplify to take back to your organization.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Content Management
• Viva

• Bart Peluso

Brewing Beer with IDP, Machine Learning & RPA

Attention technologists & beer drinkers: In this unique session we'll look at how one of the nation's largest independent breweries improved their business & their beer with state-of-the-art document technologies integrated into Microsoft SharePoint. Bring your intellect & your questions. You just might win some cool NBB swag!

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Content Management
• Search
• Solution Showcase

• Christopher Rousset

Maximizing Microsoft Teams for Training & Compliance

Traditional enterprise learning management systems are designed to deliver and monitor a diverse array of learning activities. However, these conventional learning solutions often operate as standalone systems, remaining detached from the digital communication and collaboration hubs that are integral to daily work routines.

With more than 280 million active users, for many Microsoft Teams is now the cornerstone of their increasingly hybridized workspace. So, the question becomes, how does one bring learning to this pivotal hub.

By seamlessly integrating learning resources within the familiar Microsoft Teams environment, you can significantly boost the effectiveness of knowledge sharing across Microsoft 365 and deepen employee usage across this platform. It's about delivering precisely the right learning materials to the right individuals at precisely the right moment in their workflow.

Join our session where we'll unveil:
- How you can effortlessly embed learning experiences directly into Microsoft Teams
- How to get the data you need to track and report training progress
- What this means for overall employee success and productivity at your organization
- Real-life success stories

Harness the power of Microsoft Teams and unlock new avenues for efficiency, productivity, compliance, and collaborative learning.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User
• Solution Showcase

• Drew Madelung

Deploying & Managing OneDrive

In this session we will go through the key areas you need to know to help you and your organization to not install OneDrive but adopt and drive usage.

We will go through key topics like how to best plan a migration and deployment, how to configure client and administrative policies, all while learning the tips and tricks of managing such a central solution within the Microsoft 365 world.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Content Management

• Peter Carson

Teams First Information Architecture and Governance

When planning out or updating a Microsoft 365 implementation, SharePoint is still important, but it really needs to start with Teams, and then the underlying SharePoint structure for a big part flows out of that. It's not just answering planning questions, but also ensuring that everyone understands that Teams is much more than a meeting and chat platform.

Topics we'll cover in this session include:
- Introducing a maturity model on how organizations leverage Teams,
- SharePoint, Email, and OneDrive
- Level setting on how they work together
- Understanding the differences between Standard, Private, and Shared
- Channels, and the underlying SharePoint site collections
- Where do standalone Communication and Team Sites fit into the Teams and SharePoint structure
-Guests versus B2B Direct Connect in Teams, and external sharing in SharePoint
- Open source scripts and Power BI dashboards to inventory and analyze your file shares, SharePoint on-premises, and SharePoint Online
- Answering the question - what does a Team and a Channel represent in my organization
- MindJet as a tool for planning your IA
- Commercial and open-source solutions for implementing your IA
Real-world scenarios and case studies

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Content Management
• Microsoft Teams Adoption

• Antonio Maio

Discover, Assemble, and Gain Insights into your Content with Microsoft Syntex

Microsoft Syntex brings advanced content services and AI together to automate processes, classification, and more, transforming information into working knowledge for your organization in a way we've never seen before. In this session, you'll learn how Microsoft Syntex has come to the forefront of Content AI and automated knowledge management, the services and solutions it can provide, how they work together, and some proven ways to implement Syntex in your organization.

We'll start by looking at the AI models that Microsoft Syntex provides for unstructured, structured, and freeform document processing, covering the bread and butter of the solution's features. Then you'll learn about Microsoft's Syntex's capabilities for content assembly and content processing.

Finally, we'll look at what Syntex is bringing in upcoming releases, including eSignature, advanced search, data archiving and managing SharePoint data at scale. We'll share real-world conversations about Syntex implementation, deployment, and adoption scenarios to spark the conversation at your organization.

Join us to discover how to improve content management and business efficiency with Content AI and Microsoft Syntex.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Content Management
• Syntex

• William Huneycutt

I didn't know you could do that with OneDrive!

OneDrive is more than just cloud storage for your files. It’s a smart way to work and collaborate across Microsoft 365. Whether you need to share documents with your team, sync files to your desktop, or protect your work from accidental loss, OneDrive has you covered.

In this engaging and practical session, I will show you how to make the most of OneDrive’s features to boost your productivity and make work easier.

Learn how to:
- Let OneDrive track activity and sharing for you
- Open and save files directly from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, & OneNote
- Manage changes with document version history
- Securely share content with people inside & outside the organization
- Quickly access SharePoint documents and libraries without leaving OneDrive
- Move and copy files quickly and easily with between - OneDrive and SharePoint
- Sync files locally with OneDrive files on-demand
- Share files in Microsoft Teams
- Restore files if they get deleted, overwritten, corrupted, or infected by malware
- Automate repetitive activities with flow
And more!

Don’t miss this chance to learn how OneDrive can transform the way you work.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Content Management
• OneDrive

• David Drever
• Joanne Klein

Data Lifecycle and Records Management – Tales from the Trenches

As more and more of an organization's data is stored within the cloud, controlling the sheer amount of data can be daunting. Administrators and record managers are being called on more and more to support content management to ensure it is maintained and destroyed based on required schedules within the business.

David and Joanne have assisted organizations for years and helped many enterprises design and build record management solutions within Microsoft 365 from the ground up. In this session, they will discuss critical topics organizations should consider when implementing their record management environment. They will also cover common pitfalls affecting the organization as it journeys down the information governance path.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Content Management
• Not hands-on

• Brian Alderman

Exploring Microsoft 365 migration considerations and tools

Congratulations, on your decision to move to Microsoft 365. If your mind is running rampant on how to complete the migration, this session is for you.

We will begin by exploring the steps necessary during the following migration phases:
- Before the migration
- Completing the migration
- Managing the cloud-based content after migration

As you can guess, you’re going to need to know what the best approach is to complete the migration, so we will also discuss what your migration options are, and what tools are available, including out of the box tools like the SharePoint Migration Assessment Tool (SMAT), the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT), Migration Manager as well as several other tools to help streamline and successfully complete your migration to Microsoft 365.

• Advanced
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Admin/Implementation
• Content Management

• Antonio Maio

Learn How to Govern and Secure Microsoft 365 with Microsoft Syntex - SharePoint Advanced Management

In addition to Content AI, the Microsoft Syntex product family brings together a set of key capabilities for better governing Microsoft SharePoint Online and OneDrive as well as securing collaboration within Microsoft 365.

In this session we'll walk through and demonstrate each of these capabilities and discuss real-world scenarios where you can restrict access to sensitive sites and content, run data governance reports to gain insight on where your organization may have risk, and look at the advanced features for managing content lifecycle.

We'll also share insights into the licenses needed to take advantage of each feature. Join us to discover the Microsoft Syntex - SharePoint Advanced Management features.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Content Management
• Syntex

• Corey Roth

Case Study: Launching a modern Intranet when stakeholders won't engage

When you want to launch a global Intranet on top of Microsoft 365, you need to engage the right stakeholders before you ever get started. What do you do it no one will engage and take ownership?

This session talks about the steps we took to remove the road blocks to launch a successful Intranet. In the early days of SharePoint, some of us failed because they took a "build it and they will come" approach. However, SharePoint is different now. Building an Intranet doesn't require months of planning and development. You can mock up concept pages very quickly now which are visually engaging.

In this session, you'll lean how we build SharePoint sites directly with our stakeholders and drove adoption like never before. If you're struggling to get your Intranet off the ground, this session is for you.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Content Management
• Intranet & Portals

• Sarah Haase

Power employee engagement with Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams

Hybrid and remote work are the new normal, but work trends indicate the greatest challenges are a sense of community, connection, relationship-building, and inspiration.

This session highlights how Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams come together to foster company culture, unlock communication and engagement opportunities, organize content, and spark employee creativity.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Content Management
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Power User
• Viva

• Joanne Klein

Scaling your Retention with Microsoft Purview Adaptive Scopes

This session will do a deep-dive on "scoping" retention policies and labels inside Microsoft 365 and how they can help your organization intelligently scale to meet complex retention requirements. Understanding how to leverage scopes is key to an organization's overall Information Governance and Records Management program design and implementation. It requires IT Administrators and Compliance professionals to work in partnership together.

To demonstrate the capability, Joanne will walk thru several real-world use-cases of building adaptive scopes in Microsoft Purview and will highlight the technology dependencies to be aware of before you start down this path.

4 objectives of session:
- Understand the difference between static and adaptive scopes and when you would use one over the other
- Understand how to create each of the 3 types of adaptive scopes and the technologies they are dependent on
- Understand how to build a query in the Advanced query builder for each type of adaptive scope
- Show how to validate the results of the query

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Content Management

• David Drever

Increasing Adoption in Microsoft 365 Information and Records Management

Businesses are ramping up the adoption of information and records management (IRM) within their organization. However, the problem many are facing is that IRM can require a lot of user interaction to be fully effective. These increased requirements on the user greatly affect the adoption of IRM processes. Microsoft 365 provides several powerful and robust features that can increase records management within the organization while decreasing the load on the end-user.

This session will cover many topics such as auto-classification, retention inheritance, and trainable classifiers to assist organizations with their information and records management adoption.

• Intermediate
• OnPrem
• Content Management
• Not hands-on

• Treb Gatte

Automate manual processes by converting Documents to Data with Syntex, AI Builder, and Power BI

Are you looking for ways to save your company money? Let us show you how to use Content AI to automate traditionally manual processes, like invoice reconciliation.

Content AI, which includes Microsoft Syntex, forms the basis for this solution. According to Forrester, today’s organizations have 73% of their critical information locked away in their Content Estate, scattered amongst PDFs and other unstructured, hard to analyze file formats. Until now, the process to extract and use this information has been manual, time-consuming, and expensive. How many people does your org have rekeying data, for example?

Learn how you can use Microsoft’s new Content AI technology to convert documents to data at scale.

Using SharePoint Syntex, AI Builder, and Power BI, you see how to build a competitor product comparison with your own product. You’ll see how to:
- Create an extraction model using AI Builder
- Attach that model to a SharePoint library
- Have SharePoint Syntex extract the data from the documents automatically
- Use the new Power BI integration with SharePoint, using your structured data for analysis.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Content Management
• Power Platform
• Syntex

• William Huneycutt

Next level productivity with Microsoft 365 Copilot

Are you looking to take your productivity to the next level? Microsoft 365 Copilot will help you achieve just that! In this hands-on workshop where you'll learn how OpenAI is integrated into Microsoft 365 to streamline your business processes, automate tasks, improve workflows, and increase productivity while saving time and effort.

You'll explore how to use Microsoft's new Bing Chat powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT to get more relevant, up-to-date, and annotated search results using natural language chat. You'll learn how to use the new Bing Chat to help you write emails, summarize documents, create presentations, and more in Microsoft 365 apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Microsoft Edge.

You'll discover how to use Microsoft Teams premium features powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 AI language model such as:
Intelligent recap: A summary of the meeting with key points and tasks.
Smart transcription: A live transcript of the meeting with speakers and edits.
Meeting insights: A dashboard that shows relevant information for the meeting.
Live captions: A real-time translation of the speech into different languages.

You’ll also learn how to use Power Apps and Power Automate where you can describe what you want in natural language and let AI build it for you! For example, you can use Power Apps “Ideas” to create an app from a description3, or use Power Automate “create a cloud flow from a description” or “format data by example” features3 to automate your data processing.

The future of the modern workplace is here! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how Microsoft 365 and OpenAI can help you achieve more with less effort! With hands-on exercises and practical tips, you'll leave the workshop with a solid understanding of how to use Microsoft 365 and OpenAI to maximize your productivity.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Copilot
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power User
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Mark Kashman
• Liz Sundet

Keynote: Flexible, AI-Powered Work

The platform shift to AI is well underway. Just as customers turned to Microsoft to help them make the shift to remote and flexible work, they’re now turning to us to help them understand how this new era of AI will change work yet again. Learn how AI is transforming work. Understand how Microsoft 365 can be your end-to-end solution spanning durable trends impacting teamwork, organizational productivity, and employee wellbeing. Join Liz and Mark - product leaders from Microsoft - as they highlight news and demos across Copilot, Teams, Viva, SharePoint, OneDrive, Lists, and more. Kick off 365 EduCon - Chicago to understand the strategy and vision - clarity on where Microsoft is taking productivity into the future.

• All
• AI/OpenAI
• Copilot
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Keynote

• Mark Kashman

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Join our deep dive to learn more about accelerating your productivity, unleashing your creativity and uplevelling your skills with Microsoft 365 Copilot. We'll include answering your questions on the governance and management of these AI driven experiences.

• All
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Copilot

• Cathy Dew

SharePoint in the AI Era: Introducing Copilot in SharePoint

Join in to hear and see the future vision of SharePoint from the user experience (UX) perspective. You'll hear both now and future context, a peek behind how Microsoft plans to evolve SharePoint design, and best practices when creating and building gorgeous sites and pages for communication creators and consumers alike. One not to miss if you want to get clarity on where SharePoint is heading next.

• Intermediate
• AI/OpenAI
• Copilot
• SP Development

• Stephanie Donahue

Rethinking Information Architecture in the Era of Microsoft 365 Copilot

With the introduction of Microsoft 365 Copilot, it's tempting to think that information architecture is no longer relevant. After all, Copilot promises to find all your information effortlessly, acting as your personal assistant.

However, we need to consider potential challenges. What if Copilot leads users to sensitive content accidentally? Have we adequately secured our environment in our rush to enable remote work? Additionally, how valuable is the content returned in search queries? Is it time to revisit site lifecycle management and retention to optimize Copilot's performance?

Join this session as we discuss strategies to prepare your M365 environment for the future, ensuring seamless engagement with Microsoft 365 Copilot while addressing critical information architecture considerations.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management
• Copilot

• Scott Shearer

Copilot in Microsoft Power Automate

Power Automate is advancing to the next step in the evolution of code abstraction: moving from custom code to low code to natural language authoring, with the arrival of your personal next-generation AI copilot in Power Automate.

In this demo-rich session, we'll walk through how to use the AI Co-pilot to simplify and speed up you Power Automate development tasks.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Copilot
• Power Automate

• Corey Roth

Winning SPFx development with GitHub Copilot

The demand for cutting edge SharePoint Framework (SPFx) solutions is more than ever. Why not let a tool help you get more done in less time? With GitHub Copilot, you will see how it can provide legitimate code snippet suggestions to get common tasks done in your web part and Microsoft Teams development.

You'll be amazed at the quality of the suggestions and how it understands your code and adapts to your naming conventions and recognizes patterns in how you personally write code. I've been using GitHub Copilot for months now and it's a must-have in my development toolbox now.

If you're looking to save time in your development cycle, you need to attend this session and see firsthand how GitHub Copilot is worth every penny.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Copilot
• SP Development

• Harysh Menon

Teams, Power Automate and Copilot - automate Microsoft 365 like never before!

Learn about the different ways in which your organization can be more productive with Power Automate, M365 and Copilot.

Discover experiences across, SharePoint, Teams, Excel and Windows and Process mining-based insights that help you get time to focus on what's important.

• All
• AI/OpenAI
• Copilot
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power Automate

• Stephanie Donahue

Boosting Employee Development with Viva Goals and Copilot

In today's dynamic work environment, organizations strive to empower their employees' growth and development. Microsoft Viva Goals, a powerful platform within the Microsoft Viva suite, offers a comprehensive yet user-friendly solution for goal management and tracking within Microsoft 365.

This session dives into the capabilities of Viva Goals and explores how Copilot can augment the goal management experience, leading to improved employee performance and engagement.

Key topics covered in this session include:
* Introduction to Viva Goals
* Leveraging Copilot for Goal Creation
* Goal Tracking and Progress Monitoring
* Strategies for promoting adoption and engagement

Discover how Microsoft Viva Goals and Copilot can accelerate employee development and goal management within Microsoft 365.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Business Value
• Copilot
• Viva

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Hands-On: Azure, Azure OpenAI & ChatGPT For Power Platform Developers Masterclass

Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code platform for rapidly building customized end-to-end business solutions. It consists of five product areas: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages. Each area can be used individually or together. Thanks to native integration with Azure, developers can use their cloud development skills to extend Microsoft Power Platform with different Azure services. With a low-code integrated development approach, business goals can be achieved faster and free up time for the developers.

In this hands-on workshop, we will cover how to use Azure for custom development in Microsoft Platform services like Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Virtual Agents, Dataverse, and Power BI.

We will cover:
• Microsoft Azure Key Concepts
• How does Power Platform use Azure?
• How can fusion teams take advantage of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?
• Authentication and Authorization in Azure
• Azure + Power Automate
• Azure + Power Apps
• Azure + Power Pages
• Azure + Power Virtual Agents
• Azure + Power BI
• Azure + Dataverse
• Azure OpenAI + Power Platform
• ChatGPT + Power Platform
• What are Azure Functions?
• What are Logic Apps?
• What is Azure Bot Service?
• How to create an enterprise-grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of Azure and how to use it to implement the customizations in the Microsoft Power Platform.

Access to Azure, Azure Open AI, and Microsoft Power Platform ( Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power BI ) will be provided to create the customization. The target audience of this hands-on workshop is Developers, Power Users, and IT Pros who want to get into development.

Please note: Attendees will need to bring their laptops with internet access and modern browsers like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. The tablets will not work.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power BI
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform Better Together

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI has caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. In this demo-driven workshop, Microsoft Business Applications and AI MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer Prashant G Bhoyar will cover how organizations can use Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform services to build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement.

We will cover :
• The new and improved Power Virtual Agents key concepts
• Copilot in Power Virtual Agents
• Azure Open AI Key Concepts
• ChatGPT key concepts
• How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Power Platform?
• Authentication and Authorization in Azure
• Azure API Management
• Azure Communication Services
• Power Platform Custom Connectors
• Azure Open AI + Power Virtual Agents
• ChatGPT + Power Virtual Agents
• How organizations can build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement with Power Virtual Agents, Azure, Power Platform, ChatGPT, and Azure Open AI

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of how to build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement with Power Virtual Agents, Azure, Power Platform, ChatGPT, and Azure Open AI.

• Advanced
• Cloud & OnPrem
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents
• N/A

• Prashant G Bhoyar

ChatGPT, Azure Open AI and Power Platform: Better Together

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI has caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. In this demo-driven session, we will cover the key concepts and how organizations can use ChatGPT, Azure Open AI, and Power Platform services to build next-gen enterprise-grade applications.

We will cover :
- Azure Open AI Key Concepts
- ChatGPT key concepts
- Co-Pilots in the Power Platform
- How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Power Platform?
- How organizations can build next-gen enterprise-grade apps using ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI, and Power Platform services?

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents

• Jessica Lo

How to build scalable apps with Power Apps and Dataverse

In this session, we will explore the powerful combination of Power Apps and Dataverse for building scalable applications. Discover how to leverage the robust features of Power Apps to create custom applications and extend their capabilities using the rich data model provided by Dataverse.

Learn best practices for designing scalable apps, optimizing performance, and ensuring data integrity, enabling you to deliver high-quality solutions that can grow with your organization's needs

• Intermediate
• Dataverse
• Power Platform

• Tom Keough

Ransomware and Cloud Backup: How to Protect Your Vulnerable Data

Did you know that ransomware attacks have increased 51% year-over-year? With cybercriminals finding new innovative ways to gain access to your cloud if you’re only relying on Microsoft 365 to backup and protect your information, you’re leaving your business vulnerable.

Join this Solution Spotlight focused on “Ransomware and Cloud Backup: How to Protect Your Vulnerable Data”. During this session our security experts will discuss:

-The current state of ransomware attacks on the cloud.
-How Microsoft is not responsible for any data stored in the cloud and what this means for your business.
-Tools that top organizations choose to reduce risks, save money and make their lives easier.

This session will feature a live demo to answer all your questions! Hope to see you all there.

• All
• Cloud
• Dataverse

• Ralph Rivas

Understanding Power Platform licensing

Get under the covers and find out what all this great functionality may cost by diving into the latest Microsoft information on licensing when using the the Power Platform.

This session is updated monthly with each publication of the latest Power Platform licensing guidance and also includes Roadmap changes that are publicly declared.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Power Automate for Microsoft 365 Developers

Power Automate helps us to create intelligent automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to get notifications, synchronize files, collect data, and do much more.

Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) has opened Pandora's box of features that developers can use to build real-life enterprise-grade solutions using the low code paradigm. For example, calling the SharePoint REST APIs, calling Microsoft Graph APIs, calling External web services, and integrating with Azure services such as Azure Functions and Azure Dev Ops.

In this demo-driven session, we will cover how developers can use some of the rich feature sets of Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) and build real-life enterprise-grade business applications.

You will learn:
- How to use Azure AI Services like ChatGPT with Power Automate?
- How to consume the REST Endpoints using Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to consume Microsoft Graph APIs using Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to call Azure Function from Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to build enterprise-grade business applications in Microsoft 365 using
- Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to convert Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) to Logic Apps?

• Advanced
• Cloud & OnPrem
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents

• Ralph Rivas

Setting up your Power Platform Administrator Workstation in under an hour

Take a tour at the latest and state of the art tools that you can use and setup to help with efficient administration of all things Power Platform from straight up monitoring to controlling governance and deployment without drowning in micro-management tasks or process minutia.

This session covers a hands-on look at the Out-of-Box Power Platform admin center, the latest incarnation of the Center of Excellent kits (both the main and the Automation one!) as well as the Devops/ALM tools that fall into the domain of the administrator.

This is for those who need to set up things from scratch or have already immersed themselves in the administration role who may also be looking for some extra justification to get more monitors.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Susan Hanley

Information Architecture for SharePoint Intranets and Viva Connections in Microsoft 365

In this workshop, we will explore the basics of Information Architecture (IA) and its role in creating effective intranets using Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and Viva Connections.

Whether you are just starting out or looking to improve your current intranet design, this workshop will provide you with the necessary tools and techniques to make the most of new and upcoming features, capabilities, and best practices. We'll cover key topics including creating and organizing content, building site structures, creating metadata, and leveraging search functionality.

You will take away:
* Approaches for planning navigation across the entire intranet and on individual sites
* Tips and best practices for audiences, hubs, and home sites
* Page design guidance that supports accessibility and great user experiences
• Effective use of metadata on pages and documents – and whether it is OK to use folders to organize your content.

You'll leave with a clear understanding of what IA is, why it matters, and how to get started with creating effective intranets that meet your organization's needs.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Intranet & Portals
• Not hands-on

• David Drever
• Joanne Klein

Microsoft 365 Purview: Maintaining and Protecting Your Data Throughout its Lifecycle

In recent years, the amount of digital content moving to the cloud has been dramatic. No doubt, this has made collaboration easier and more versatile, but it's also brought with it a new set of problems, such as oversharing, exfiltration of data, and non-compliant destruction of data. Organizations like yours must ensure data is available when required and protected when sensitive.

In this workshop, your expert presenters will share their collective knowledge and experience with a deep dive into what Microsoft Purview can do, including coverage of features such as Data Lifecycle Management, Records Management, and Microsoft Information Protection.

But it's not all theory. You'll leave the workshop with their recommended approach for implementation using a Day 1/Day 2/Day 3 incremental model that maintains a balance between the user experience and the necessary protections for your organization.

Now's the time to ensure your data is safe from prying eyes. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from two of the best in the industry on exactly how to make that happen.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Content Management
• Intranet & Portals
• Not hands-on

• Nate Chamberlain

Fix that intranet! Improve your intranet content, structure, and processes

Intranets built in SharePoint Online are running on the galaxy's best platform for enterprise communication and collaboration.

In this half-day, beginner-friendly workshop, we'll learn about SharePoint but with an intranet focus. We'll cover tips and ideas for content strategy, planning and structuring an intranet, best practices for facilitating internal communication and collaboration, how Teams and Viva Connections play into things, digitizing forms, and using the Power Platform to create, automate, and visualize throughout SharePoint.

Note: This is not a hands-on build-an-entire-intranet-in-three-hours workshop. This is entirely focused on best practices and ideas for improving your intranet's content, structure, and processes.

Let's fix that intranet!

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Intranet & Portals
• Not hands-on

• Mark Rackley
• Stephanie Donahue

The Intranet is dead... long live the Intranet!

What's going with intranets these days? Should corporations be investing in creating or modernizing their Intranets? How does the rise of Teams and new tools like Viva impact your intranet? What does it all mean?

Join Stephanie Donahue and Mark Rackley for a frank discussion about the future of Intranets and what you need to do today to prepare for tomorrow.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Intranet & Portals
• Not hands-on

• Susan Hanley

The Ultimate Shopping List for a Successful Intranet in Microsoft 365

If you are shopping for or planning a new intranet, what capabilities do you need to have? What do you need to think about to ensure that you deliver success? How does Microsoft Teams factor into your intranet? How can Microsoft Viva deliver value for your intranet users? How can the new features introduced for SharePoint, including Copilot, help me advance my intranet outcome goals?

If you are wondering about the answers to these questions and more, this session is for you! We’ll review key concepts, ideas, capabilities, and planning tips to help ensure that your intranet drives value for everyone in the organization.

Whether you are a seasoned intranet professional or just starting your journey, this presentation will provide you with valuable insights and practical guidance on what to include in your ultimate shopping list.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Intranet & Portals

• Sean McDonough

Reaching Airspeed Velocity to Get Your New Intranet Off the Ground

The creation of the first intranet happened in the latter part of the 20th century, but no one would recognize that as an intranet by today’s standards. Since then, intranet implementations and the platforms they’re built on have matured significantly and grown more complex.

In this session, we’ll be looking at the modern intranet through the lens of SharePoint. There are plenty of decisions to consider and points to deliberate even before you jump into action. We’ll discuss optimal team composition, roles that should be factored-in, technological considerations, stakeholder involvement/representation, project lifecycle needs, launch considerations, and more.

I’ll be sharing my experiences, highlights, triumphs, and painful lessons learned architecting intranets of varying sizes for the last decade or so.

In short: we will be covering all of the things I wish *I* had known before I ever started building intranets in the hopes they will spare you some of the pain I endured.

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Intranet & Portals
• Not hands-on

• Sarah Haase

Building your organizational home site & hubs strategy

It's a flat new world in SharePoint. We've moved on from classic and hierarchical site collections and built an array of modern sites. But how do we organize our content, sites, and intranets in this new world?

This session introduces home sites and hubs and provides guidance on how to build a strong content management strategy for their use. We'll define what home sites and hubs are, lay the conceptual groundwork for understanding their use, and provide a creative new way of conceptualizing the logical ties between your myriad of flat SharePoint sites.

We’ll also discuss how Viva Connections plays into our intranet and home site strategy.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Content Management
• Intranet & Portals

• Susan Hanley

Planning Effective Governance of your Intranet in Microsoft 365

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations need to ensure that their intranets and Microsoft 365 environments are effectively governed to meet both business and compliance requirements. But having a governance plan is not enough. Unless you can effectively define and communicate roles and responsibilities, provide actionable guidance and best practices to site owners, content authors, and end-users, your governance plan will not be effective or sustainable.

Attend this session to learn how you can effectively plan and implement governance for your intranet, Microsoft Viva, and Microsoft 365 to support your organization's digital transformation. We will also talk about governance planning for new capabilities - like Copilot and other generative AI tools. Whether you are just starting your governance journey or looking to take your existing efforts to the next level, this presentation will provide you with actionable insights, practical guidance, and content to help you get started!

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Intranet & Portals
• Viva
• Not hands-on

• Asif Rehmani

Setting Up Effective Onboarding and Contextual Support For Your SharePoint Intranet Users

Lots of companies are enhancing their existing SharePoint based intranets and portals or migrating to SharePoint Online from third party tools. The challenge now is to make sure your users will be using the SharePoint intranet and finding information and support at their moment of need.

This session will show real use case scenarios of how companies around the world are onboarding their users on their SharePoint intranet as well as keeping them engaged and fully supported in context of their SharePoint environments. The result: increased usage of SharePoint portals while reducing internal support costs.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Intranet & Portals

• Cathy Dew

SharePoint portals: Launching your intranet into the future

Creating your organization's intranet - across portals and sites - can empower your users to collaborate, create, and connect in new and exciting ways. Learn more about all the best practices for your portal strategy using SharePoint, Teams, Viva Connections and more.

We'll have tons of demos across big features and small, tied together with guidance and best practices to make the most of your intranet investments.

• Intermediate
• Intranet & Portals
• Microsoft Teams User
• Viva

• Corey Roth

Case Study: Launching a modern Intranet when stakeholders won't engage

When you want to launch a global Intranet on top of Microsoft 365, you need to engage the right stakeholders before you ever get started. What do you do it no one will engage and take ownership?

This session talks about the steps we took to remove the road blocks to launch a successful Intranet. In the early days of SharePoint, some of us failed because they took a "build it and they will come" approach. However, SharePoint is different now. Building an Intranet doesn't require months of planning and development. You can mock up concept pages very quickly now which are visually engaging.

In this session, you'll lean how we build SharePoint sites directly with our stakeholders and drove adoption like never before. If you're struggling to get your Intranet off the ground, this session is for you.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Content Management
• Intranet & Portals

• Daniel Glenn

Enhance Your Intranet with Viva Dashboard Cards

In today's fast-paced business world, an effective intranet is essential for staying connected and productive. The Viva Connections Dashboard enhances every employee's experience by delivering flexible and dynamic information in their flow of work. Using the Dashboard's adaptive cards, we can bring a customized experience for each user. Creating adaptive cards that bring value to your users can start with simple, no-code solutions. Developers can also create cards to connect to data sources and bring enhanced functionality by creating complex integrations.

In this session we will discuss how to create true, no code solutions in the Viva Connections Dashboard, as well as low and full code adaptive cards. Learn how to create and customize adaptive cards, as well as best practices for integrating them into intranets. By the end of the session, attendees will have a better understanding of how to use adaptive cards to improve their intranet and make it more engaging and user-friendly.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Intranet & Portals
• Viva
• N/A

• Susan Hanley

How to leverage Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Viva to improve employee communications and engagement

Microsoft Viva provides critical applications and experiences to improve employee engagement and connection. New features and capabilities provide opportunities to ensure that your employees are both connected and engaged, no matter where they work.

In this session, you will learn practical approaches for employee communications in Microsoft 365 – from SharePoint news to the personalized Viva Connections feed in Teams to Yammer, Viva Engage, and Viva Amplify.

Take away insights into what you need to know about what is possible, what is coming, and how to improve communication and engagement outcomes with Microsoft Viva and Microsoft 365.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Intranet & Portals
• Viva

• William Huneycutt

Next level productivity with Microsoft 365 Copilot

Are you looking to take your productivity to the next level? Microsoft 365 Copilot will help you achieve just that! In this hands-on workshop where you'll learn how OpenAI is integrated into Microsoft 365 to streamline your business processes, automate tasks, improve workflows, and increase productivity while saving time and effort.

You'll explore how to use Microsoft's new Bing Chat powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT to get more relevant, up-to-date, and annotated search results using natural language chat. You'll learn how to use the new Bing Chat to help you write emails, summarize documents, create presentations, and more in Microsoft 365 apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Microsoft Edge.

You'll discover how to use Microsoft Teams premium features powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 AI language model such as:
Intelligent recap: A summary of the meeting with key points and tasks.
Smart transcription: A live transcript of the meeting with speakers and edits.
Meeting insights: A dashboard that shows relevant information for the meeting.
Live captions: A real-time translation of the speech into different languages.

You’ll also learn how to use Power Apps and Power Automate where you can describe what you want in natural language and let AI build it for you! For example, you can use Power Apps “Ideas” to create an app from a description3, or use Power Automate “create a cloud flow from a description” or “format data by example” features3 to automate your data processing.

The future of the modern workplace is here! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how Microsoft 365 and OpenAI can help you achieve more with less effort! With hands-on exercises and practical tips, you'll leave the workshop with a solid understanding of how to use Microsoft 365 and OpenAI to maximize your productivity.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Copilot
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power User
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Mike Maadarani
• Sarah Haase

Maximizing Microsoft 365 Productivity: Practical Strategies and Use Cases for Power Users

Are you ready to supercharge your Microsoft 365 skills and take your productivity to the next level? Join us for a dynamic and interactive workshop covering practical productivity tips for using the Microsoft 365 ecosystem to improve your and your team's everyday workflows.

In this workshop, you'll learn from experts who will showcase real-world examples of how to leverage the full potential of Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, Microsoft Teams, OneNote, Planner, OneDrive, Microsoft Forms, Microsoft Lists, and Microsoft Viva. We will also discuss Microsoft Loop and the newly announced Microsoft 365 Copilot!

You'll come away with the best ways to use the many tools in the Microsoft 365 toolbelt, including which apps work best in different scenarios. On top of that, you'll get examples of bringing multiple apps together to extend the value of your digital workplace, based on proven practices your presenters have seen work well for power users in other organizations.

From advanced collaboration techniques to automating everyday tasks, you'll come away with practical tips and tricks that you can put into action right away.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power Automate
• Power User
• Not hands-on

• Nate Chamberlain

Unboxing Microsoft 365: Make the most of your productivity toolbox

Join Microsoft MVP and certified trainer Nate Chamberlain in this full day workshop for newer Microsoft 365 users or evaluators looking to better understand all the possibilities Microsoft 365 brings to your organization.

Attendees will learn about all the apps and latest features in Microsoft 365 that enable both individual and group productivity including SharePoint, Office 365 apps, Outlook, OneDrive, To Do, Teams, Lists, Planner, Viva, and more.

We’ll go beyond definitions to explore specific business use cases, tips, and FAQs such as:
• Microsoft 365 overview: What’s in my toolbox?
• Understand the relationships between apps, and how permissions and Microsoft 365 groups power your modern work
• Co-authoring documents, version history
• Requesting files from others, sharing files, and managing access in OneDrive and SharePoint
• Teams vs SharePoint vs OneDrive
• Teams conversations vs chats vs emails
• How do the newer Viva apps fit in?
& more!

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Not hands-on

• William Huneycutt

Microsoft 365 Power User Workshop

The complete Microsoft 365 workshop – from beginner to power user in a single day! This comprehensive workshop covers everything you need to know to get started quickly with Microsoft
365.

Upon completion of this workshop, you’ll know how to:
* Meet, chat, and work together more efficiently using Microsoft Teams.
* Manage and share content with SharePoint and OneDrive.
* Manage tasks and projects better with Planner, To-do, and Lists.
* Connect and engage with Outlook and Yammer.
* Organize and stay in sync across chat, meetings, or documents using Loop.
* Create and be more productive with Whiteboard, Forms, Word, * Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and more!

This hands-on workshop will empower you to use Microsoft 365 to its fullest potential – maximizing personal productivity, collaborating with your team, or solving challenges across the organization.

Discover what’s possible with Microsoft 365.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power User
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Paul Papanek Stork

Advanced Power Apps and Power Automate: Workarounds for Common Problems

Spend any amount of time in the Power Platform forums and you will begin to see a lot of similar questions asked over and over again.

In this workshop we will look at some of the most common issues Citizen Developers encounter when trying to develop applications and workflows in the Power Platform. We'll examine each type of problem, analyze why they occur, and provide workarounds that you can use when you encounter them.

The workshop will be divided into two parts. In the first we'll concentrate on Power Apps and in the second we'll look at Power Automate.

Here is a general list of the overall topics we will cover:
• Morning: Power Apps
○ Delegation
○ Working with Dates and Times
○ Conditional Formatting of data
○ Passing Data to and Retrieving Results from a Flow
• Afternoon: Power Automate
○ Using Conditions and Switches effectively
○ Handling Loops and Parallel Branches
○ Working with Large Data Sources
○ Implementing Error Checking/Correction
○ Improving Performance

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Mark Kashman
• Liz Sundet

Keynote: Flexible, AI-Powered Work

The platform shift to AI is well underway. Just as customers turned to Microsoft to help them make the shift to remote and flexible work, they’re now turning to us to help them understand how this new era of AI will change work yet again. Learn how AI is transforming work. Understand how Microsoft 365 can be your end-to-end solution spanning durable trends impacting teamwork, organizational productivity, and employee wellbeing. Join Liz and Mark - product leaders from Microsoft - as they highlight news and demos across Copilot, Teams, Viva, SharePoint, OneDrive, Lists, and more. Kick off 365 EduCon - Chicago to understand the strategy and vision - clarity on where Microsoft is taking productivity into the future.

• All
• AI/OpenAI
• Copilot
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Keynote

• Mike Fitzmaurice

Building Business Processes that Can & Will Evolve: Product-Neutral Principles

Far more than data management apps, workflow solutions need to factor in the need for frequent change. You should expect even the best-designed models and applications to be regularly modified -- and that's a good thing.

This has an impact on how to design processes, how to create forms and reports, how to connect to external data, and how to maintain internal data.

This session will talk about reasons why workflow solutions need to be modified so often, why you should embrace this, and strategies and tactics for addressing it. Its advice can be applied to Microsoft Power Automate (Flow), WEBCON BPS, Nintex, K2, SharePoint Designer, or most anything else.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power Automate
• Not hands-on

• Derek Cash-Peterson

Introduction To Custom List Forms Using SPFx

In this introductory developer session, we will talk about the functionality released in SPFx that supports list form customizers. This functionality allows developers to create a customized user interface for forms in SharePoint lists or libraries enhancing the user experience and providing the ability to include custom logic into the form. In this session we will create our first list form customizer and attach it to a SharePoint list. We will also look at how to enhance the user experience through the use of a Fluent UI design system. Attendees will leave with an understanding of how to create their first list form customizers and have resources to support further exploration. All are welcome and while development experience isn’t necessary for this session, we will be looking at code and talking about SPFx and React.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• SP Development
• Not hands-on

• Mike Maadarani
• Gokan Ozcifci

Streamline data creation using Power Automate and Microsoft Syntex

Unleash the full potential of your data creation process with Power Automate and Microsoft Syntex. Say goodbye to manual tasks and hello to automation. Power Automate provides a simple yet powerful interface to create custom workflows that streamline your data creation process.

Microsoft Syntex, on the other hand, utilizes AI to extract valuable information from unstructured sources and categorize it for you. With these tools working together, you'll see improved accuracy, efficiency, and an overall increase in productivity.

Join our session to learn how to upgrade your data creation process today with Power Automate and Microsoft Syntex.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power Automate
• Syntex

• Mark Kashman
• Liz Sundet
• Cathy Dew
• Michelle Gilbert
• Heather Newman
• Marc Mroz
• Harysh Menon

Microsoft AMA + SharePint

Got a burning question you just can't yet find an answer to? This AMA is to be a lively live hour of Q&A - to ask questions and voice feedback - direct to the product teams across OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Viva, Syntex, Yammer, Power Platform, and more.
And then enjoy pizza and casual networking with all.
You'll come in scratching your head and leave with a head full of answers, and maybe a belly full of 'za.

• All
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power Platform
• Keynote

• Mike Fitzmaurice

Stages and State Machines: The Ideal Way to Model and Manage Workflows

If you've heard of Power Automate Business Process Flows; they're an implementation of stage/state machine logic available to companies with Premium licensing.

SharePoint Designer 2013 supported stages, and third-party options range from emulation (Nintex) to engine-level support (WEBCON).

This session will start by explaining how stage-based designs and processes work, move on to why they're often far better than classic sequential flowcharts, and conclude with examples of how to build and run such solutions.

It's the most useful workflow "secret" you can possibly learn.

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power Automate
• Not hands-on

• Wes Preston

Forms, Forms, and more Forms. Data gathering for the modern info worker

Microsoft List (and SharePoint) forms, Forms with Power Apps, and Microsoft Forms. Which one (or more) should you use, and when?

This session will walk through updated capabilities and options available to no-code makers and citizen developers when building solutions with forms.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power Platform
• Power User

• Amarender Peddamalku

Automate content processing using AI & SharePoint Syntex

We'll learn how to use SharePoint Syntex that uses advanced AI and machine teaching to amplify human expertise, automate content processing, and transform content into knowledge.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Business Value
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Syntex

• Don Kirkham

Connecting SharePoint Framework (SPFx) projects to your data

SPFx can be used to build beautiful, modern solutions for Office 365, Microsoft Teams and Viva, but the usefulness of these solutions is limited if not connected to live data.

We will cover how to connect to SharePoint and Microsoft Graph directly using the REST APIs for each data source. We will then explore how to use PnPJs and the Microsoft Graph toolkit (MGT) to simplify and accelerate both the development and performance of our SPFx solutions.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Azure/o365 Development
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• SP Development

• Edward Watson

Protect Microsoft 365 data with immutability and monitoring

In the last 12 months, 53% of surveyed organizations stated that they had experienced data loss or corruption in SaaS applications. Luckily, more organizations are adopting third-party backup solutions for Microsoft 365, but many are still vulnerable to data loss. 

Join this session from Veeam to learn everything you need to know about Microsoft 365 backup. We will not only show you how easy it is to start protecting your Microsoft 365 data for FREE, but you will also get a close look at how to make Microsoft 365 backup data immutable, leverage advanced monitoring capabilities, and provide self-service restore options to your users. 

• Expert
• N/A
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Microsoft Teams User

• Nate Chamberlain

How well do you know the Microsoft 365 desktop apps? 70 min of tips & ideas to wow your co-workers

There's more to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote than what immediately meets the eye.

In this session, we're not learning the basics - we're learning the lesser-known gems and useful tools tucked away inside these common apps. We'll cover topics including image background removal, small app settings that make a big difference, cross-app integrations, illustrations vs images, Rehearse with Coach, and much, much more.

Note: This will be based on the Microsoft 365 version (not 2019 or earlier) of the desktop apps. While there will be some cross-over, there are features that will be covered that are exclusive to the most up-to-date version.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Not hands-on

• Michelle Gilbert

Modern Work Architecture - From the Core to Professional Self

Learn how Microsoft is empowering employee experiences at the core, creativity of personal and team productivity, connection to community and leaders, and your professional experiences.

You will walk away with a new sense of Modern Work Architecture that envisions where work gets done and what matters to you and employees you may support.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Power User

• Liam Cleary

Data Security Breach in Microsoft 365, Now What?

In today's world, it is almost inevitable that your organization will experience a data and security breach, no matter the on-premises or cloud software. Microsoft 365 is no different. Even though it contains many fantastic security controls and features, many organizations do not implement them for varying reasons.

In order to protect from a data security breach you need to know what you would do if that were to happen, as well as the controls and features to enable.

In this session, we will step through where to start in the event of a data and security breach within Microsoft 365. We will walk through how to analyze logs, identify which services to review, how to identify the breach, and then how to protect from future events.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• N/A

• Nate Chamberlain

Goodbye, TwoNote - A OneNote refresher

OneNote is moving from two separate apps (Win 10 and desktop versions) to a single version, based on the desktop version simply called OneNote (previously known as OneNote 2016).

In this session we'll reintroduce ourselves to OneNote, learn some exciting tips and tricks along with business use ideas, and discuss what's new and what's coming for OneNote.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power User
• Not hands-on

• Marc Mroz

Microsoft Stream & Clipchamp: Video creation, sharing, and playback in Microsoft 365

Stream (on SharePoint) & Clipchamp puts video in the flow of everyday work to help you create alignment and connection across hybrid and remote teams. Stream & Clipchamp enhances video communications for meeting recordings, corporate communications, how-to, training, and leadership videos. In this session we will show a range of new Stream (on SharePoint) features and capabilities. Find out what's new with the Stream start page, transcripts, captions, Clipchamp for Enterprise, Teams meeting recordings, video search, enhanced playback, the Stream web and mobile apps, the content migration tool and more.

• All
• Microsoft 365 Apps

• Stephanie Donahue
• Mark Rackley

We’ve Deployed Microsoft Teams… Now What?

Every organization that uses Teams needs an effective long term strategy. Microsoft Teams is the fastest-growing Microsoft application in history! Most organizations hear this news and immediately go into risk management mode. Who’s already using Teams? Should we stop people from using Teams? Do we need to put provisioning processes in place? What do we do with all this STUFF that gets created whenever someone spins up a new Team? What about SharePoint? It’s possible that more questions arise from a successful Teams deployment than an unsuccessful one! But how should you address your deployment and long term strategy of Microsoft Teams? How does Teams fit into your overall Modern Workplace vision? Attend this full-day workshop with Microsoft MVP’s Stephanie Donahue and Mark Rackley of the PAIT Group and:
- Understand how Teams fits into your overall Microsoft 365 strategy
- Learn to effectively manage your Teams environment including:
o Scale
o Governance
o Retention
- Dig into options for customizing Teams to get even more out of your Teams deployment including:
o bots
o web parts
o provisioning
- Tackle how to train users on best practices and prevent secure information from being accidentally shared
Microsoft Teams is here, it’s being adopted like crazy, and proper strategy and education is key to making the most of your Microsoft 365 investment.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams Admin
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Not hands-on

• Michelle Gilbert

Create a Curated Experience in Teams!

You will learn the needs of generational workforces and how to create curated experiences in Teams based on your organization's personas.

You will see how four diverse types of employee's experiences in Teams have unique needs: Deployment Team; Information Workers; Firstline Workers; and Executives. And learn to apply policies and settings that matter to them.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams Admin
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User

• Samuel Martineau

Can security and productivity coexist in Microsoft 365?

As end users gain greater autonomy within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, adapting to this shift and finding effective ways to manage collaboration seamlessly and securely is essential. Now is the time to embrace change and address the challenges head-on.

In this session, our esteemed Solutions Architect, Samuel Martineau, delves into the practical insights needed to navigate this changing landscape through governance. From user adoption, sprawl, shadow IT, security, and management concerns, Samuel provides valuable strategies to maintain control without panicking.

This session is a must-attend for anyone seeking to optimize Microsoft 365 while ensuring security and productivity coexist—this is how great IT teams evolve!

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Microsoft Teams Admin
• Microsoft Teams Adoption

• Christian Buckley

How to Winter-Proof Your M365 Tenant

In this session, we delve into comprehensive strategies and practical solutions to secure and optimize your Microsoft 365 tenant for seamless performance throughout the winter season and beyond. We'll discuss how to:

1) Declutter your Microsoft 365 Tenant
2) Optimize Microsoft 365 Costs
3) Automate Operational Processes
4) Manage Access and Permissions
5) Establish Teams and SharePoint Provisioning

Join us to empower your organization with knowledge and tools to winter-proof your M365 tenant, ensuring robustness, security, and cost-effectiveness.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Microsoft Teams Admin
• Solution Showcase

• Amit Vasu

Maximizing Productivity : Unraveling Microsoft Teams Premium

In this session, you will learn to unleash collaboration excellence with Microsoft Teams Premium during this session.

We will cover an in-depth exploration of Teams Premium, licensing details, and an exciting glimpse into the future product roadmap.

This session will also cover the deployment use cases and various collaboration scenarios. Join this session to explore Teams Premium and its practical applications comprehensively.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams Admin
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User

• Michelle Gilbert

Microsoft Teams in a Regulated Environment

Come learn how you can deploy, use, and achieve success with Teams in a regulated environment. In this session we will show you the strategies and technologies you need to succeed.

You will learn:
- Governance Strategies
- Compliance & Records Management
- Security Options
- Monitoring & Auditing Capabilities
- Training and Enablement

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Microsoft Teams Admin

• Mike Maadarani
• Sarah Haase

Maximizing Microsoft 365 Productivity: Practical Strategies and Use Cases for Power Users

Are you ready to supercharge your Microsoft 365 skills and take your productivity to the next level? Join us for a dynamic and interactive workshop covering practical productivity tips for using the Microsoft 365 ecosystem to improve your and your team's everyday workflows.

In this workshop, you'll learn from experts who will showcase real-world examples of how to leverage the full potential of Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, Microsoft Teams, OneNote, Planner, OneDrive, Microsoft Forms, Microsoft Lists, and Microsoft Viva. We will also discuss Microsoft Loop and the newly announced Microsoft 365 Copilot!

You'll come away with the best ways to use the many tools in the Microsoft 365 toolbelt, including which apps work best in different scenarios. On top of that, you'll get examples of bringing multiple apps together to extend the value of your digital workplace, based on proven practices your presenters have seen work well for power users in other organizations.

From advanced collaboration techniques to automating everyday tasks, you'll come away with practical tips and tricks that you can put into action right away.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power Automate
• Power User
• Not hands-on

• Stephanie Donahue
• Mark Rackley

We’ve Deployed Microsoft Teams… Now What?

Every organization that uses Teams needs an effective long term strategy. Microsoft Teams is the fastest-growing Microsoft application in history! Most organizations hear this news and immediately go into risk management mode. Who’s already using Teams? Should we stop people from using Teams? Do we need to put provisioning processes in place? What do we do with all this STUFF that gets created whenever someone spins up a new Team? What about SharePoint? It’s possible that more questions arise from a successful Teams deployment than an unsuccessful one! But how should you address your deployment and long term strategy of Microsoft Teams? How does Teams fit into your overall Modern Workplace vision? Attend this full-day workshop with Microsoft MVP’s Stephanie Donahue and Mark Rackley of the PAIT Group and:
- Understand how Teams fits into your overall Microsoft 365 strategy
- Learn to effectively manage your Teams environment including:
o Scale
o Governance
o Retention
- Dig into options for customizing Teams to get even more out of your Teams deployment including:
o bots
o web parts
o provisioning
- Tackle how to train users on best practices and prevent secure information from being accidentally shared
Microsoft Teams is here, it’s being adopted like crazy, and proper strategy and education is key to making the most of your Microsoft 365 investment.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams Admin
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Not hands-on

• Michelle Gilbert

Create a Curated Experience in Teams!

You will learn the needs of generational workforces and how to create curated experiences in Teams based on your organization's personas.

You will see how four diverse types of employee's experiences in Teams have unique needs: Deployment Team; Information Workers; Firstline Workers; and Executives. And learn to apply policies and settings that matter to them.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams Admin
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User

• Sarah Haase

Manage the mess: Building an organizational strategy for pinned apps in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams continues to be the work zone for employees. Integration with SharePoint, Microsoft Viva, Lists, Planner, OneNote, etc. make it possible to live and work inside of Teams all day. Managing the prime-time real estate of pinned apps in Teams can be challenging, especially as your employees' list of critical apps grows. How do you prioritize which apps get pinned for all users? And should you leave open navigation space so users can select their own favorite apps to pin?

In this session, we'll examine sizing and use of the Teams navigation bar. We'll discuss organizing principles, talk about types of models (pre-selected app pinning vs. employee self-service pinning) that may work for your organization, and give you tips on how to prioritize Teams navigation icons.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Not hands-on

• Nate Chamberlain

A closer look at Approvals and Updates in Microsoft Teams

Approvals and Updates are two apps in Microsoft Teams you can use to customize and standardize routine business processes for your team. For example, you might customize a project request template only your team can use.

Or maybe you want to create a travel approval template the whole organization can use. And with Updates, you can automate regular requests to gather project status updates, performance reviews, and more.

In one hour, you'll learn how these two built-in Teams tools can boost your team's consistency and efficiency.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power User

• Amit Vasu

Elevate Your Virtual Engagement: A Deep Dive into Teams Live Events

Microsoft Teams live events offer unparalleled flexibility if you're considering organizing an online event with a substantial audience.

Join this session to explore the essentials of getting started with Teams Live Events, discover valuable Tips and Tricks for optimizing your event experience, and explore the vast array of administrative settings at your disposal when utilizing Teams Live Events.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User

• Stephen Rose

Real World Tips and Tricks for Driving Software Deployment

What do companies like Lego, AEG, Polaris, Takeda, and the Special Olympics have in common? They all have useful tips and tricks around driving internal usage of software to help them move from synchronous work to asynchronous work.

In this session we will hear from those customers and learn how they drove success in their organizations and how you can as well.

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Business Value
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User

• Amit Vasu

Unearthing the power of Microsoft Teams Room

In this transformative era of meetings, the fusion of physical and digital spaces offers unparalleled opportunities for innovation, connection, and productivity.

This session will cover how Microsoft Teams Rooms revolutionizes how we work by providing advanced, interactive, and captivating meeting spaces that cater to the needs of hybrid work environments.

You will leave this session learning how to create an engaging, inclusive meeting room atmosphere that fosters collaboration and teamwork among remote and in-person participants.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Business Value
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User
• Not hands-on

• Christopher Rousset

Maximizing Microsoft Teams for Training & Compliance

Traditional enterprise learning management systems are designed to deliver and monitor a diverse array of learning activities. However, these conventional learning solutions often operate as standalone systems, remaining detached from the digital communication and collaboration hubs that are integral to daily work routines.

With more than 280 million active users, for many Microsoft Teams is now the cornerstone of their increasingly hybridized workspace. So, the question becomes, how does one bring learning to this pivotal hub.

By seamlessly integrating learning resources within the familiar Microsoft Teams environment, you can significantly boost the effectiveness of knowledge sharing across Microsoft 365 and deepen employee usage across this platform. It's about delivering precisely the right learning materials to the right individuals at precisely the right moment in their workflow.

Join our session where we'll unveil:
- How you can effortlessly embed learning experiences directly into Microsoft Teams
- How to get the data you need to track and report training progress
- What this means for overall employee success and productivity at your organization
- Real-life success stories

Harness the power of Microsoft Teams and unlock new avenues for efficiency, productivity, compliance, and collaborative learning.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User
• Solution Showcase

• Samuel Martineau

Can security and productivity coexist in Microsoft 365?

As end users gain greater autonomy within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, adapting to this shift and finding effective ways to manage collaboration seamlessly and securely is essential. Now is the time to embrace change and address the challenges head-on.

In this session, our esteemed Solutions Architect, Samuel Martineau, delves into the practical insights needed to navigate this changing landscape through governance. From user adoption, sprawl, shadow IT, security, and management concerns, Samuel provides valuable strategies to maintain control without panicking.

This session is a must-attend for anyone seeking to optimize Microsoft 365 while ensuring security and productivity coexist—this is how great IT teams evolve!

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Microsoft Teams Admin
• Microsoft Teams Adoption

• Mike Maadarani

Deep dive into Microsoft Teams Channels

Microsoft Teams consist of three main channel categories: Standard, Private, and Shared. In this session, we will review the functionality and differences of each channel and explain the use case scenario of each one.

We will explain the architecture of each channel, the differences between the previous Guest experience and the current B2B architecture, and how to best collaborate with others within your tenant or external users.

We will finish the session by discussing how you can govern access to your data in each channel scenario.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams Adoption

• Michelle Gilbert

Modern Work Architecture - From the Core to Professional Self

Learn how Microsoft is empowering employee experiences at the core, creativity of personal and team productivity, connection to community and leaders, and your professional experiences.

You will walk away with a new sense of Modern Work Architecture that envisions where work gets done and what matters to you and employees you may support.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Power User

• Peter Carson

Teams First Information Architecture and Governance

When planning out or updating a Microsoft 365 implementation, SharePoint is still important, but it really needs to start with Teams, and then the underlying SharePoint structure for a big part flows out of that. It's not just answering planning questions, but also ensuring that everyone understands that Teams is much more than a meeting and chat platform.

Topics we'll cover in this session include:
- Introducing a maturity model on how organizations leverage Teams,
- SharePoint, Email, and OneDrive
- Level setting on how they work together
- Understanding the differences between Standard, Private, and Shared
- Channels, and the underlying SharePoint site collections
- Where do standalone Communication and Team Sites fit into the Teams and SharePoint structure
-Guests versus B2B Direct Connect in Teams, and external sharing in SharePoint
- Open source scripts and Power BI dashboards to inventory and analyze your file shares, SharePoint on-premises, and SharePoint Online
- Answering the question - what does a Team and a Channel represent in my organization
- MindJet as a tool for planning your IA
- Commercial and open-source solutions for implementing your IA
Real-world scenarios and case studies

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Content Management
• Microsoft Teams Adoption

• Ryan Schouten

Running Teams Live Events at Scale

Teams live events are extremely powerful and can power conferences large and small. After helping put on the largest community conference run on Microsoft Teams some key things were learned that could help anyone planning on putting on a conference. This could be for a community event or for your organization.

In this session we will talk about the
- lessons learned from the conference
- features of teams live events
- options for putting on a conference

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams Adoption

• Sarah Haase

Power employee engagement with Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams

Hybrid and remote work are the new normal, but work trends indicate the greatest challenges are a sense of community, connection, relationship-building, and inspiration.

This session highlights how Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams come together to foster company culture, unlock communication and engagement opportunities, organize content, and spark employee creativity.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Content Management
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Power User
• Viva

• Jeff Willinger

Using Viva Connections and Topics to Build a World Class Employee Experience

Microsoft Viva Connections and Topics are the new gateway to a modern employee experience designed to keep everyone engaged and informed. Viva Connections and Topics are customizable apps in Microsoft Teams that gives everyone a personalized destination to discover relevant news, conversations, and the tools they need to succeed.

This session will do a deep dive into how to get started and actual use cases to build the story on how to improve the employee experience at your organizations.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Viva

• Amit Vasu

Maximizing Productivity : Unraveling Microsoft Teams Premium

In this session, you will learn to unleash collaboration excellence with Microsoft Teams Premium during this session.

We will cover an in-depth exploration of Teams Premium, licensing details, and an exciting glimpse into the future product roadmap.

This session will also cover the deployment use cases and various collaboration scenarios. Join this session to explore Teams Premium and its practical applications comprehensively.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams Admin
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User

• Andrew Connell

Accelerate Your Teams App Development Journey: Build High-Quality Apps with Confidence

This half-day session covers how to build tabs, bots, and message extensions for Microsoft Teams, while also including Microsoft 365 apps. We will explore various development tools such as TeamsFX, the Teams Toolkit, YO Teams, the Dev Portal, and SPFx, giving you everything you need to get started building your own Teams apps. Whether you're a seasoned developer or new to the game, this half-day session will serve as your on-ramp to building MS Teams apps.

NOTE: Hey 👋, Andrew here… this workshop is not intended for attendees to follow along & build the same projects during the session. Instead, focus on learning, taking notes, & getting answers to your questions - you’ll walk away with everything at the end of the day!

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams Development
• Not hands-on

• Mike Maadarani
• Sarah Haase

Maximizing Microsoft 365 Productivity: Practical Strategies and Use Cases for Power Users

Are you ready to supercharge your Microsoft 365 skills and take your productivity to the next level? Join us for a dynamic and interactive workshop covering practical productivity tips for using the Microsoft 365 ecosystem to improve your and your team's everyday workflows.

In this workshop, you'll learn from experts who will showcase real-world examples of how to leverage the full potential of Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, Microsoft Teams, OneNote, Planner, OneDrive, Microsoft Forms, Microsoft Lists, and Microsoft Viva. We will also discuss Microsoft Loop and the newly announced Microsoft 365 Copilot!

You'll come away with the best ways to use the many tools in the Microsoft 365 toolbelt, including which apps work best in different scenarios. On top of that, you'll get examples of bringing multiple apps together to extend the value of your digital workplace, based on proven practices your presenters have seen work well for power users in other organizations.

From advanced collaboration techniques to automating everyday tasks, you'll come away with practical tips and tricks that you can put into action right away.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power Automate
• Power User
• Not hands-on

• Gokan Ozcifci
• Liz Sundet

Mastering Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a powerful collaboration platform that allows teams to work together seamlessly, no matter where they are. It's built on top of the Microsoft cloud, which means it can access all the powerful tools and applications available in Office 365. With Teams, you can manage conversations, share files, schedule meetings, and work with colleagues in real time.

This workshop will cover everything you need to know to get the most out of Microsoft Teams. We'll start with an overview of the platform and walk through how to start with Teams. From there, we'll dive into best practices for managing different scenarios, such as managing remote teams, running effective meetings, and collaborating on projects.
We'll also explore how Teams interacts with other Microsoft applications, such as Viva, Loop, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, Dataverse, and the Power Platform. You'll learn how to use these tools to streamline your workflows and increase productivity.

The workshop will cover data, management, file sharing, governance, and application extensions with Power Platform. We'll also explore the different types of chats and adaptative cards available in Teams. By the end of the workshop, you'll understand how Teams works and how to use it to enhance collaboration within your organization.

To get the most out of the hands-on portion of the workshop, attendees should bring a laptop computer with a demo environment.
While tablets or phones may be used, they may not offer the best experience for completing the labs. This workshop is perfect for organizations considering deploying Microsoft Teams or just starting their journey with the platform. We'll assess everything from A to Z to ensure you have the knowledge and tools to succeed.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams User
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Michelle Gilbert

Create a Curated Experience in Teams!

You will learn the needs of generational workforces and how to create curated experiences in Teams based on your organization's personas.

You will see how four diverse types of employee's experiences in Teams have unique needs: Deployment Team; Information Workers; Firstline Workers; and Executives. And learn to apply policies and settings that matter to them.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams Admin
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User

• Nate Chamberlain

A closer look at Approvals and Updates in Microsoft Teams

Approvals and Updates are two apps in Microsoft Teams you can use to customize and standardize routine business processes for your team. For example, you might customize a project request template only your team can use.

Or maybe you want to create a travel approval template the whole organization can use. And with Updates, you can automate regular requests to gather project status updates, performance reviews, and more.

In one hour, you'll learn how these two built-in Teams tools can boost your team's consistency and efficiency.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power User

• Amit Vasu

Elevate Your Virtual Engagement: A Deep Dive into Teams Live Events

Microsoft Teams live events offer unparalleled flexibility if you're considering organizing an online event with a substantial audience.

Join this session to explore the essentials of getting started with Teams Live Events, discover valuable Tips and Tricks for optimizing your event experience, and explore the vast array of administrative settings at your disposal when utilizing Teams Live Events.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User

• Stephen Rose

Real World Tips and Tricks for Driving Software Deployment

What do companies like Lego, AEG, Polaris, Takeda, and the Special Olympics have in common? They all have useful tips and tricks around driving internal usage of software to help them move from synchronous work to asynchronous work.

In this session we will hear from those customers and learn how they drove success in their organizations and how you can as well.

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Business Value
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User

• Gokan Ozcifci

Become a Microsoft Teams Rockstar

Microsoft Teams has been designed for teamwork and flexibility, powered by the Microsoft cloud to bring together the best of Microsoft 365 into a single workspace for working with people, managing conversations, maintaining files, and integrating Office 365 applications, so everyone has instant access to everything they need for a successful collaboration.

With great features come great questions, and this session will cover how to plan, implement, and master Microsoft Teams. Be ready for an overview of Microsoft Teams, examples of how to get started with Microsoft Teams, best practices for managing different scenarios, and how Viva, Loop, the Power Platform, SharePoint + OneDrive, and Dataverse interacts with Microsoft Teams.

If your organisation is considering deploying or starting your journey to Microsoft Teams, this session is for you as we'll assess everything from A to Z.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams User

• Treb Gatte

Power BI Metrics - Tracking the metrics that matter to you

Metrics and scorecards are a Power BI feature that enables you to track and act upon on the metrics that matter to your organization.

In this presentation, you'll learn
1. What are Power BI Metrics and how are they intended to be used
2. See some examples of real-world scorecards
3. See how to set up a scorecard demo
4. Show you how to set up Power Automate to trigger actions when a metric status changes
5. Show the Metric integration in Microsoft Teams

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power Automate
• Power BI
• Power Platform

• Amit Vasu

Unearthing the power of Microsoft Teams Room

In this transformative era of meetings, the fusion of physical and digital spaces offers unparalleled opportunities for innovation, connection, and productivity.

This session will cover how Microsoft Teams Rooms revolutionizes how we work by providing advanced, interactive, and captivating meeting spaces that cater to the needs of hybrid work environments.

You will leave this session learning how to create an engaging, inclusive meeting room atmosphere that fosters collaboration and teamwork among remote and in-person participants.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Business Value
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User
• Not hands-on

• Sandy Ussia

Automated Notifications in Microsoft Teams

With many people spending their workday in Microsoft Teams, receiving notifications right within Teams can be much more effective than email notifications. These might be notifications of new sales, documents needing to be approved, employees joining the team, or any number of things. This session will show you how to use Power Automate to automatically create and update actionable messages within Microsoft Teams, as well as how to trigger Power Automate flows from within Teams. We'll look at the Teams-related actions and triggers available in Power Automate, and also see how to create interactive Adaptive Cards for use within Teams.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power Automate

• Christopher Rousset

Maximizing Microsoft Teams for Training & Compliance

Traditional enterprise learning management systems are designed to deliver and monitor a diverse array of learning activities. However, these conventional learning solutions often operate as standalone systems, remaining detached from the digital communication and collaboration hubs that are integral to daily work routines.

With more than 280 million active users, for many Microsoft Teams is now the cornerstone of their increasingly hybridized workspace. So, the question becomes, how does one bring learning to this pivotal hub.

By seamlessly integrating learning resources within the familiar Microsoft Teams environment, you can significantly boost the effectiveness of knowledge sharing across Microsoft 365 and deepen employee usage across this platform. It's about delivering precisely the right learning materials to the right individuals at precisely the right moment in their workflow.

Join our session where we'll unveil:
- How you can effortlessly embed learning experiences directly into Microsoft Teams
- How to get the data you need to track and report training progress
- What this means for overall employee success and productivity at your organization
- Real-life success stories

Harness the power of Microsoft Teams and unlock new avenues for efficiency, productivity, compliance, and collaborative learning.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User
• Solution Showcase

• Edward Watson

Protect Microsoft 365 data with immutability and monitoring

In the last 12 months, 53% of surveyed organizations stated that they had experienced data loss or corruption in SaaS applications. Luckily, more organizations are adopting third-party backup solutions for Microsoft 365, but many are still vulnerable to data loss. 

Join this session from Veeam to learn everything you need to know about Microsoft 365 backup. We will not only show you how easy it is to start protecting your Microsoft 365 data for FREE, but you will also get a close look at how to make Microsoft 365 backup data immutable, leverage advanced monitoring capabilities, and provide self-service restore options to your users. 

• Expert
• N/A
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Microsoft Teams User

• Cathy Dew

SharePoint portals: Launching your intranet into the future

Creating your organization's intranet - across portals and sites - can empower your users to collaborate, create, and connect in new and exciting ways. Learn more about all the best practices for your portal strategy using SharePoint, Teams, Viva Connections and more.

We'll have tons of demos across big features and small, tied together with guidance and best practices to make the most of your intranet investments.

• Intermediate
• Intranet & Portals
• Microsoft Teams User
• Viva

• Eric Overfield

Viva + Teams | Your Cure to Productivity Paranoia

The way we work has fundamentally changed, and organizations are clamoring to connect disparate digital tools into an intuitive and holistic digital workspace. Microsoft Viva—Microsoft's employee experience platform—is becoming the central hub of a successful digital workplace. With an evolving collection of modules spanning four key pillars (Connection, Insight, Purpose, & Growth), understanding the Viva ecosystem can feel daunting.

In this session, Microsoft MVP and Regional Director Eric Overfield breaks down the many modules of Microsoft Viva and shows you how they can bring transparency, efficiency, and productivity to your workforce. Walk away with practical applications to configure and architect your Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Viva-empowered digital workspace.

In this session:
- Understand each of the Generally Available Viva modules as well as recent Viva news
- See how the modules integrate and a day in the life of an employee using Viva
- Learn successful patterns & practices when rolling out Viva components in your organization

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams User
• Viva
• Not hands-on

• Harysh Menon

Teams, Power Automate and Copilot - automate Microsoft 365 like never before!

Learn about the different ways in which your organization can be more productive with Power Automate, M365 and Copilot.

Discover experiences across, SharePoint, Teams, Excel and Windows and Process mining-based insights that help you get time to focus on what's important.

• All
• AI/OpenAI
• Copilot
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power Automate

• Amit Vasu

Maximizing Productivity : Unraveling Microsoft Teams Premium

In this session, you will learn to unleash collaboration excellence with Microsoft Teams Premium during this session.

We will cover an in-depth exploration of Teams Premium, licensing details, and an exciting glimpse into the future product roadmap.

This session will also cover the deployment use cases and various collaboration scenarios. Join this session to explore Teams Premium and its practical applications comprehensively.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams Admin
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User

• Drew Madelung

Share, Protect, & Govern Your Data in Teams, SharePoint, & OneDrive

Collaboration lives at the core of a modern workplace and collaboration is built around the ability to access and share information. Not all information is the same and the ability to get content securely to the right people, both internal and external, at the right time keeps work moving. But how do you easily and securely your data in Microsoft 365? What are your options to ensure you retain control of your data?

The ability to safeguard your data is possible! In this workshop, we will show you:
• The elements of the Microsoft data security landscape
• How to secure you data with sensitivity labels
• Control & manage sharing in your tenant
• Prevent exfiltration with data loss prevention
• How to detect, investigate, and view details on incidents and alerts
• How to bring your audit logs into Azure

By the end of this workshop you will know what you can do to secure your data and allow your company to collaborate better while knowing you are secure!

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• OneDrive
• Not hands-on

• Brian Alderman

Data recovery options for SharePoint/OneDrive

SharePoint and OneDrive include several content recovery options for SharePoint and OneDrive for Business administrators, site collection administrators, and end users. Educating your end users on SharePoint recovery options like the site recycle bin, versioning, and site collection recycle bin can lighten the burden on your admins.

Using either a GUI or PowerShell you can backup and restore your entire SharePoint Server farm or components of it. In SharePoint Server you can also perform more granular content backups by exporting site collections, site, libraries, and lists, and there are options for recovering these site collections, sites, lists and libraries from content databases that are no longer part of your SharePoint Server farm.

With a vast majority of your SharePoint Server content stored in SQL Server it is imperative that you have an efficient way to recover items or entire databases as quickly as possible.

This discussion will introduce the Best Practices framework that will allow your SharePoint Server administrators to configure SharePoint as well as SQL Server for quick content recovery, minimizing the downtime and providing shorter and achievable Service Level Agreements (SLA’s).

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Admin/Implementation
• Content Management
• OneDrive

• Mark Kashman

What's new in OneDrive

Learn about and see demos of the new features coming to OneDrive that will enhance sharing, collaboration, offline use, and more. You'll get the latest news, roadmap, plus a few tips and tricks along the way.

• All
• Cloud
• Content Management
• OneDrive

• William Huneycutt

I didn't know you could do that with OneDrive!

OneDrive is more than just cloud storage for your files. It’s a smart way to work and collaborate across Microsoft 365. Whether you need to share documents with your team, sync files to your desktop, or protect your work from accidental loss, OneDrive has you covered.

In this engaging and practical session, I will show you how to make the most of OneDrive’s features to boost your productivity and make work easier.

Learn how to:
- Let OneDrive track activity and sharing for you
- Open and save files directly from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, & OneNote
- Manage changes with document version history
- Securely share content with people inside & outside the organization
- Quickly access SharePoint documents and libraries without leaving OneDrive
- Move and copy files quickly and easily with between - OneDrive and SharePoint
- Sync files locally with OneDrive files on-demand
- Share files in Microsoft Teams
- Restore files if they get deleted, overwritten, corrupted, or infected by malware
- Automate repetitive activities with flow
And more!

Don’t miss this chance to learn how OneDrive can transform the way you work.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Content Management
• OneDrive

• Paul Papanek Stork

Automate your Business Processes with Power Apps and Power Automate

Learn how to start using Power Apps and Power Automate (Flow) with SharePoint Online to automate your daily workload. Discover how to use connections to connect Power Apps to services like SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Excel, Outlook and even SharePoint on-premise.

In this session I'll show you how to use Power Apps to:
- Customize SharePoint list forms with Power Apps
- Create a canvas app based on a SharePoint list
- Connect to other data sources
- Apply Themes, branding, and layouts
- Manage custom conditional formatting
- Use the Formula bar to create complex functions
- Share your Power Apps with colleagues

This session will also discuss how to get started with Power Automate (Flow). Learn how to create custom Flows in an easy-to-use visual designer right in a web browser.

In this session I'll show you how to use Power Automate (Flow) to:
- Connect to data in the cloud and on-premises
- Use triggers to start your flow
- Control branching in your flow with conditions and switches
- Review the run history of your Workflows
- Share your flows with colleagues
- How Licensing works

SharePoint is the underlying data storage system for OneDrive, Teams, and much more. Learning to use Power Apps and Power Automate (Flow) can help to address the challenges faced by today’s information workers.

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Hands-On: Azure, Azure OpenAI & ChatGPT For Power Platform Developers Masterclass

Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code platform for rapidly building customized end-to-end business solutions. It consists of five product areas: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages. Each area can be used individually or together. Thanks to native integration with Azure, developers can use their cloud development skills to extend Microsoft Power Platform with different Azure services. With a low-code integrated development approach, business goals can be achieved faster and free up time for the developers.

In this hands-on workshop, we will cover how to use Azure for custom development in Microsoft Platform services like Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Virtual Agents, Dataverse, and Power BI.

We will cover:
• Microsoft Azure Key Concepts
• How does Power Platform use Azure?
• How can fusion teams take advantage of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?
• Authentication and Authorization in Azure
• Azure + Power Automate
• Azure + Power Apps
• Azure + Power Pages
• Azure + Power Virtual Agents
• Azure + Power BI
• Azure + Dataverse
• Azure OpenAI + Power Platform
• ChatGPT + Power Platform
• What are Azure Functions?
• What are Logic Apps?
• What is Azure Bot Service?
• How to create an enterprise-grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of Azure and how to use it to implement the customizations in the Microsoft Power Platform.

Access to Azure, Azure Open AI, and Microsoft Power Platform ( Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power BI ) will be provided to create the customization. The target audience of this hands-on workshop is Developers, Power Users, and IT Pros who want to get into development.

Please note: Attendees will need to bring their laptops with internet access and modern browsers like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. The tablets will not work.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power BI
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Paul Papanek Stork

Advanced Power Apps and Power Automate: Workarounds for Common Problems

Spend any amount of time in the Power Platform forums and you will begin to see a lot of similar questions asked over and over again.

In this workshop we will look at some of the most common issues Citizen Developers encounter when trying to develop applications and workflows in the Power Platform. We'll examine each type of problem, analyze why they occur, and provide workarounds that you can use when you encounter them.

The workshop will be divided into two parts. In the first we'll concentrate on Power Apps and in the second we'll look at Power Automate.

Here is a general list of the overall topics we will cover:
• Morning: Power Apps
○ Delegation
○ Working with Dates and Times
○ Conditional Formatting of data
○ Passing Data to and Retrieving Results from a Flow
• Afternoon: Power Automate
○ Using Conditions and Switches effectively
○ Handling Loops and Parallel Branches
○ Working with Large Data Sources
○ Implementing Error Checking/Correction
○ Improving Performance

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Scott Shearer
• Wes Preston

Power Apps for SharePoint Bootcamp

You'll see where Power Apps fits in your toolset and how Power Apps can extend and build interfaces where you may have used InfoPath in the past. Demos and exercises will be used to illustrate the topics covered. You'll have the opportunity to "take the wheel" and test out Power Apps for yourself. Through a series of hands-on labs, you'll gain first-hand experience in customizing SharePoint/List forms with Power Apps and extending Lists and Teams user experiences. Your instructors will be there to assist anytime you have questions or need some help.

Attend this workshop and say goodbye to InfoPath. Gain the skills you'll need to immediately start customizing your Microsoft 365 SharePoint and Teams sites with Power Apps and Power Automate.

Notes and Requirements:
To participate in the hands-on portion of this workshop, attendees should bring a laptop computer. Attendees who bring tablets, even with keyboards, will likely experience difficulties in successfully completing the labs.

We will be using Power Apps, SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, Teams and other Microsoft 365 components in our labs. Attendees may choose to use a personally owned or corporate Microsoft 365 tenant. If not, please register for a free Microsoft 365 Developer tenant prior to the workshop here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program

If you will be using a company-provided laptop and will not be using your corporate tenant, please verify that you are able to connect to the Microsoft 365 environment that you will be using prior to arrival.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/d8brL7-GDAc

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Power Apps
• Power Platform
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform Better Together

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI has caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. In this demo-driven workshop, Microsoft Business Applications and AI MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer Prashant G Bhoyar will cover how organizations can use Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform services to build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement.

We will cover :
• The new and improved Power Virtual Agents key concepts
• Copilot in Power Virtual Agents
• Azure Open AI Key Concepts
• ChatGPT key concepts
• How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Power Platform?
• Authentication and Authorization in Azure
• Azure API Management
• Azure Communication Services
• Power Platform Custom Connectors
• Azure Open AI + Power Virtual Agents
• ChatGPT + Power Virtual Agents
• How organizations can build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement with Power Virtual Agents, Azure, Power Platform, ChatGPT, and Azure Open AI

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of how to build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement with Power Virtual Agents, Azure, Power Platform, ChatGPT, and Azure Open AI.

• Advanced
• Cloud & OnPrem
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents
• N/A

• Wes Preston

Intro to Power Apps for Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Lists

If you create business solutions with SharePoint lists
If you surface information and solutions via Microsoft Teams or SharePoint
If you're concerned with the potential complexity of Power Apps

This session will show why Power Apps canvas apps should be considered part of your toolset.

We will cover:
- Simple extensions of the SharePoint list experience with Power Apps
- How to take data from SharePoint lists to Teams and mobile experiences
- Power Apps examples that bring immediate value and set the stage for further enhancements

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Power Apps
• Power Platform

• Mike Maadarani
• Gokan Ozcifci

Unleash Your Creativity: Design Power Apps Like a Pro with Microsoft Syntex

Transform your Power App design process and drive business results with data from Microsoft Syntex. This AI-powered technology streamlines the data extraction process, providing you with the information you need to create custom Power Apps that meet the unique needs of your organization. With Power Apps, you can focus on designing the app that will deliver real business value, while it takes care of the technical details.

Attend our session to discover how to efficiently extract data with Microsoft Syntex, store it in Dataverse, and manipulate it before creating your Power App.

Say goodbye to manual data extraction and hello to a more efficient, effective Power App design process. Unleash your creativity and take your app design to the next level with Microsoft Syntex.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management
• Power Apps
• Power User
• Syntex

• Heather Newman

Highlights on What’s New for Microsoft Power Platform and Community

In this exciting session, get ready to dive into the latest updates and advancements in the Microsoft Power Platform and the thriving community surrounding it.

Discover the newest features and enhancements across Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents, and learn how these updates can supercharge your productivity and unlock new possibilities for building innovative solutions.

Explore the vibrant Power Platform community, its valuable resources, and collaborative opportunities, and gain insights into how developers and enthusiasts are leveraging the platform to drive digital transformation and solve real-world challenges.

• All
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power BI
• Power Platform

• Paul Papanek Stork

Microsoft Power Apps: Building Responsive Design Apps for Every Device

Power Apps is a great no-code tool lets "citizen developers" create applications that are designed to run on Desktop PCs, Web Browsers, Tablets, and Mobile devices. But if you want to avoid building 3 or 4 different versions of your App you need to know how to design your Power App to adjust for different sizes, resolutions, rotation, and types of layouts.

In this session we'll review all the Tips and Tricks you need to know to easily build one Power App that will adjust to work on any device that supports Power Apps and look good in the process.

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Power Apps
• Power Platform

• Paul Papanek Stork

Using PowerApps and Flow Together: Made for each other

PowerApps and Flow are both powerful tools for the citizen and professional developer. But using them together can take your application to a whole new level.

In this talk we'll get you started with how to invoke a Flow from a PowerApp, how to pass information to the Flow, and how to return values back to PowerApps when the Flow completes. Along the way we'll discuss Best Practices that can make your PowerApps and Flow work more efficiently together.

Even if you know both PowerApps and Flow this session will help you get the most out of using them together.

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Power Apps
• Power Automate

• Mike Stall
• Anderson Ferreira da Silva

Power Fx in Power Platform

With Power Fx now powering Power Virtual Agents, Dataverse, and Cards, it is a great time to use your knowledge of Power Apps’ formulas to leverage more of the Power Platform. But let’s take that up a notch, from leveraging knowledge to leveraging running code. We’ll show you how to easily move custom logic to where it can be leveraged most, for example out of a single app and into Dataverse formula columns and actions where all apps and Power Automate can leverage it. Within Power Apps, we’ll show you how named formulas, user defined functions, and components enable leverage within an app and across apps, greatly improving performance and manageability. And we’ll show you how you can enable these same low code customizations in your own projects with open-source Power Fx.

• Advanced
• Power Apps
• Power Platform

• Wes Preston

Build Role-Targeted Solutions with Power Apps

Combine Power Apps with Lists, Teams, and more to connect business solutions to your team wherever they are in today's hybrid and fluid work environments.

We'll talk through the approach of building and using role-targeted apps vs. single "do everything" apps.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Power Apps
• Not hands-on

• Gokan Ozcifci

Create Power Apps, Flows and chatbots directly from Teams with Dataverse

Dataverse for Teams allows you to use Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents on top of Dataverse inside of Teams without additional cost. But what does no cost mean? What are the differences between Dataverse and Dataverse for Teams, and how does that affect my Apps, Power Automate flows and PVA chatbots?
 
This session will compare Dataverse and Dataverse for Teams and build our data-driven app. We'll extend our app with Power Automate (with parameters and adaptative cards!) and finally make our chatbot. The goal of this session is to show you the power of these rich integrations that you most likely have available to you today and build apps without any extra cost!

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Not hands-on

• Paul Papanek Stork

Power Apps: Building Offline Apps Tips and Tricks

Power Apps is a powerful tool for "Citizen" developers to use when building applications for a variety of data sources. But how do you use a cloud based application when you have little or no Internet connectivity?

In this talk we'll look at how to take a mobile Power App that was built using SharePoint as a data source and convert it to allow use of the app when offline. Along the way we'll talk about the critical design characteristics for an offline app and the limitations inherent in this approach.

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Power Apps

• Craig Jahnke

ALM for Power Apps and Power Automate

Everyone talks about "No Code" or "Low Code" solutions and how easy they are to build. What nobody talks about is ALM (Application Lifecycle Management). Come to this sessions to learn about how to manage permissions and govern the environment and the solutions your users are creating.

We also will cover the Importing and Exporting packages and solutions, the Power Platform Center of Excellence, and using tools such as PowerShell, GitHub, and Power Platform Build Tools for Azure DevOps.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Not hands-on

• Mike Maadarani
• Sarah Haase

Maximizing Microsoft 365 Productivity: Practical Strategies and Use Cases for Power Users

Are you ready to supercharge your Microsoft 365 skills and take your productivity to the next level? Join us for a dynamic and interactive workshop covering practical productivity tips for using the Microsoft 365 ecosystem to improve your and your team's everyday workflows.

In this workshop, you'll learn from experts who will showcase real-world examples of how to leverage the full potential of Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, Microsoft Teams, OneNote, Planner, OneDrive, Microsoft Forms, Microsoft Lists, and Microsoft Viva. We will also discuss Microsoft Loop and the newly announced Microsoft 365 Copilot!

You'll come away with the best ways to use the many tools in the Microsoft 365 toolbelt, including which apps work best in different scenarios. On top of that, you'll get examples of bringing multiple apps together to extend the value of your digital workplace, based on proven practices your presenters have seen work well for power users in other organizations.

From advanced collaboration techniques to automating everyday tasks, you'll come away with practical tips and tricks that you can put into action right away.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power Automate
• Power User
• Not hands-on

• Paul Papanek Stork

Automate your Business Processes with Power Apps and Power Automate

Learn how to start using Power Apps and Power Automate (Flow) with SharePoint Online to automate your daily workload. Discover how to use connections to connect Power Apps to services like SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Excel, Outlook and even SharePoint on-premise.

In this session I'll show you how to use Power Apps to:
- Customize SharePoint list forms with Power Apps
- Create a canvas app based on a SharePoint list
- Connect to other data sources
- Apply Themes, branding, and layouts
- Manage custom conditional formatting
- Use the Formula bar to create complex functions
- Share your Power Apps with colleagues

This session will also discuss how to get started with Power Automate (Flow). Learn how to create custom Flows in an easy-to-use visual designer right in a web browser.

In this session I'll show you how to use Power Automate (Flow) to:
- Connect to data in the cloud and on-premises
- Use triggers to start your flow
- Control branching in your flow with conditions and switches
- Review the run history of your Workflows
- Share your flows with colleagues
- How Licensing works

SharePoint is the underlying data storage system for OneDrive, Teams, and much more. Learning to use Power Apps and Power Automate (Flow) can help to address the challenges faced by today’s information workers.

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Hands-On: Azure, Azure OpenAI & ChatGPT For Power Platform Developers Masterclass

Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code platform for rapidly building customized end-to-end business solutions. It consists of five product areas: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages. Each area can be used individually or together. Thanks to native integration with Azure, developers can use their cloud development skills to extend Microsoft Power Platform with different Azure services. With a low-code integrated development approach, business goals can be achieved faster and free up time for the developers.

In this hands-on workshop, we will cover how to use Azure for custom development in Microsoft Platform services like Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Virtual Agents, Dataverse, and Power BI.

We will cover:
• Microsoft Azure Key Concepts
• How does Power Platform use Azure?
• How can fusion teams take advantage of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?
• Authentication and Authorization in Azure
• Azure + Power Automate
• Azure + Power Apps
• Azure + Power Pages
• Azure + Power Virtual Agents
• Azure + Power BI
• Azure + Dataverse
• Azure OpenAI + Power Platform
• ChatGPT + Power Platform
• What are Azure Functions?
• What are Logic Apps?
• What is Azure Bot Service?
• How to create an enterprise-grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of Azure and how to use it to implement the customizations in the Microsoft Power Platform.

Access to Azure, Azure Open AI, and Microsoft Power Platform ( Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power BI ) will be provided to create the customization. The target audience of this hands-on workshop is Developers, Power Users, and IT Pros who want to get into development.

Please note: Attendees will need to bring their laptops with internet access and modern browsers like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. The tablets will not work.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power BI
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Amarender Peddamalku

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows - Part 1

In every organization there are a number of scenarios which require an Approval process. It could be Contract approvals, PTO/Leave Approvals, Event approvals and many other business processes.

In this workshop we'll learn how to design and develop Multi-Stage Approval Workflows Using Power Automate. The workflow will move back and forth b/w different stages and will also learn how to restart a workflow from a given stage. We'll learn how to include Dynamic Approvers in the workflow process.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Power Automate
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Scott Shearer

Power Automate Cloud Flows for the Absolute Beginner

If you want to start creating Power Automate Cloud Flows and have little to no experience, this session is for you!

Here's what you'll learn:
- What are Power Automate Cloud Flows and why you should care
- Types of Cloud Flows
- How to create Flows from a template and from scratch
- How to debug your Flows
- Power Automate and SharePoint, Excel and other data sources
- Power Automate Expressions
- Power Automate approvals
And more…

All concepts will be presented using live demos.
While this is not a hands-on session, attendees are welcome to follow along.

Attend this session and gain the skills that you need to star creating Power Automate Cloud Flows today!

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Not hands-on

• Amarender Peddamalku

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows - Part 2

In every organization there are a number of scenarios which require an Approval process. It could be Contract approvals, PTO/Leave Approvals, Event approvals and many other business processes.

In this workshop we'll learn how to design and develop Automated escalations and Automated reminders. We'll implement timeout features in the workflows to escalate it to the next approver in the process. We will also learn how to log and retain workflow history beyond what Microsoft Power Automate offers out-of-box. We'll develop a button to kick off the workflow from a SharePoint library/list.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Power Automate
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Paul Papanek Stork

Advanced Power Apps and Power Automate: Workarounds for Common Problems

Spend any amount of time in the Power Platform forums and you will begin to see a lot of similar questions asked over and over again.

In this workshop we will look at some of the most common issues Citizen Developers encounter when trying to develop applications and workflows in the Power Platform. We'll examine each type of problem, analyze why they occur, and provide workarounds that you can use when you encounter them.

The workshop will be divided into two parts. In the first we'll concentrate on Power Apps and in the second we'll look at Power Automate.

Here is a general list of the overall topics we will cover:
• Morning: Power Apps
○ Delegation
○ Working with Dates and Times
○ Conditional Formatting of data
○ Passing Data to and Retrieving Results from a Flow
• Afternoon: Power Automate
○ Using Conditions and Switches effectively
○ Handling Loops and Parallel Branches
○ Working with Large Data Sources
○ Implementing Error Checking/Correction
○ Improving Performance

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform Better Together

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI has caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. In this demo-driven workshop, Microsoft Business Applications and AI MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer Prashant G Bhoyar will cover how organizations can use Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform services to build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement.

We will cover :
• The new and improved Power Virtual Agents key concepts
• Copilot in Power Virtual Agents
• Azure Open AI Key Concepts
• ChatGPT key concepts
• How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Power Platform?
• Authentication and Authorization in Azure
• Azure API Management
• Azure Communication Services
• Power Platform Custom Connectors
• Azure Open AI + Power Virtual Agents
• ChatGPT + Power Virtual Agents
• How organizations can build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement with Power Virtual Agents, Azure, Power Platform, ChatGPT, and Azure Open AI

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of how to build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement with Power Virtual Agents, Azure, Power Platform, ChatGPT, and Azure Open AI.

• Advanced
• Cloud & OnPrem
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents
• N/A

• Scott Shearer
• Wes Preston

Power Automate for SharePoint Bootcamp

We will start the afternoon with an overview of Power Automate. You'll learn about the different types of Flows that can be created with Power Automate and will start creating Flows yourself.

We'll then dive into Power Automate concepts including expressions, variables and loops. We'll move on to thoroughly covering how to use Power Automate with SharePoint. Finally, we see how to integrate Power Apps and Power Automate.

Live demos will be used to demonstrate all of these concepts. You'll have the opportunity to implement what you have learned through a series of hands-on labs.

Notes and Requirements:
To participate in the hands-on portion of this workshop, attendees should bring a laptop computer. Attendees who bring tablets, even with keyboards, will likely experience difficulties in successfully completing the labs.

We will be using Power Apps, SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 components in our labs. Attendees may choose to use a personally owned or corporate Microsoft 365 tenant. If not, please register for a free Microsoft 365 Developer tenant prior to the workshop here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program

If you will be using a company-provided laptop and will not be using your corporate tenant, please verify that you are able to connect to the Microsoft 365 environment that you will be using prior to arrival.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/d8brL7-GDAc

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Mike Fitzmaurice

Building Business Processes that Can & Will Evolve: Product-Neutral Principles

Far more than data management apps, workflow solutions need to factor in the need for frequent change. You should expect even the best-designed models and applications to be regularly modified -- and that's a good thing.

This has an impact on how to design processes, how to create forms and reports, how to connect to external data, and how to maintain internal data.

This session will talk about reasons why workflow solutions need to be modified so often, why you should embrace this, and strategies and tactics for addressing it. Its advice can be applied to Microsoft Power Automate (Flow), WEBCON BPS, Nintex, K2, SharePoint Designer, or most anything else.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power Automate
• Not hands-on

• Prashant G Bhoyar

ChatGPT, Azure Open AI and Power Platform: Better Together

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI has caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. In this demo-driven session, we will cover the key concepts and how organizations can use ChatGPT, Azure Open AI, and Power Platform services to build next-gen enterprise-grade applications.

We will cover :
- Azure Open AI Key Concepts
- ChatGPT key concepts
- Co-Pilots in the Power Platform
- How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Power Platform?
- How organizations can build next-gen enterprise-grade apps using ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI, and Power Platform services?

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents

• Heather Newman

Highlights on What’s New for Microsoft Power Platform and Community

In this exciting session, get ready to dive into the latest updates and advancements in the Microsoft Power Platform and the thriving community surrounding it.

Discover the newest features and enhancements across Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents, and learn how these updates can supercharge your productivity and unlock new possibilities for building innovative solutions.

Explore the vibrant Power Platform community, its valuable resources, and collaborative opportunities, and gain insights into how developers and enthusiasts are leveraging the platform to drive digital transformation and solve real-world challenges.

• All
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power BI
• Power Platform

• Mike Maadarani
• Gokan Ozcifci

Streamline data creation using Power Automate and Microsoft Syntex

Unleash the full potential of your data creation process with Power Automate and Microsoft Syntex. Say goodbye to manual tasks and hello to automation. Power Automate provides a simple yet powerful interface to create custom workflows that streamline your data creation process.

Microsoft Syntex, on the other hand, utilizes AI to extract valuable information from unstructured sources and categorize it for you. With these tools working together, you'll see improved accuracy, efficiency, and an overall increase in productivity.

Join our session to learn how to upgrade your data creation process today with Power Automate and Microsoft Syntex.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power Automate
• Syntex

• Joanne Klein

Exploring Microsoft Syntex Document Processing from Start to Finish

Microsoft Syntex marks a significant stride in the intelligent classification of SharePoint content. At the heart of Syntex lies document processing models to effectively assist in managing content. The modern workplace generates vast amounts of unstructured content, which demands large-scale management through automatic structuring, including metadata and content types, and governance, such as security and compliance controls. Fortunately, Microsoft Syntex offers precisely that, and much more!

To showcase this novel capability, Joanne will explain all Syntex model types and provide use-cases for each one. She'll then conduct a live demo to highlight the creation of a Microsoft Syntex unstructured document processing model to efficiently classify SharePoint documents and then integrate it with Power Automate and Syntex Content Assembly to automatically generate related documents using a Syntex modern template!. The walkthrough will cover the complete end-to-end process from setup to model training and deployment.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Content Management
• Power Automate
• Syntex

• Amarender Peddamalku

Power Automate Multi-Stage Approval Workflows

In this session we’ll learn how to design and develop Multi-Stage Approval Workflows Using Power Automate.

We will also learn how to restart the workflow from a given stage and how to include Dynamic Approvers. We'll dig into how to design and develop Automated escalations and Automated reminders. We will also learn how to log workflow history and ways to retain the history indefinitely.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Power Automate

• Mike Fitzmaurice

Stages and State Machines: The Ideal Way to Model and Manage Workflows

If you've heard of Power Automate Business Process Flows; they're an implementation of stage/state machine logic available to companies with Premium licensing.

SharePoint Designer 2013 supported stages, and third-party options range from emulation (Nintex) to engine-level support (WEBCON).

This session will start by explaining how stage-based designs and processes work, move on to why they're often far better than classic sequential flowcharts, and conclude with examples of how to build and run such solutions.

It's the most useful workflow "secret" you can possibly learn.

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power Automate
• Not hands-on

• Scott Shearer

Copilot in Microsoft Power Automate

Power Automate is advancing to the next step in the evolution of code abstraction: moving from custom code to low code to natural language authoring, with the arrival of your personal next-generation AI copilot in Power Automate.

In this demo-rich session, we'll walk through how to use the AI Co-pilot to simplify and speed up you Power Automate development tasks.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Copilot
• Power Automate

• Treb Gatte

Power BI Metrics - Tracking the metrics that matter to you

Metrics and scorecards are a Power BI feature that enables you to track and act upon on the metrics that matter to your organization.

In this presentation, you'll learn
1. What are Power BI Metrics and how are they intended to be used
2. See some examples of real-world scorecards
3. See how to set up a scorecard demo
4. Show you how to set up Power Automate to trigger actions when a metric status changes
5. Show the Metric integration in Microsoft Teams

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power Automate
• Power BI
• Power Platform

• Sandy Ussia

Automated Notifications in Microsoft Teams

With many people spending their workday in Microsoft Teams, receiving notifications right within Teams can be much more effective than email notifications. These might be notifications of new sales, documents needing to be approved, employees joining the team, or any number of things. This session will show you how to use Power Automate to automatically create and update actionable messages within Microsoft Teams, as well as how to trigger Power Automate flows from within Teams. We'll look at the Teams-related actions and triggers available in Power Automate, and also see how to create interactive Adaptive Cards for use within Teams.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power Automate

• Mark Rackley

Unleashing the Power of Power Automate with JavaScript, TypeScript, and Excel Formulas

Are you tired of struggling with complicated logic and tedious tasks in Power Automate? If so, join us for this demo-packed session to learn how to use JavaScript, TypeScript, and Excel formulas to take your Power Automate solutions to the next level.

We will explore real-world scenarios and walk through practical solutions step-by-step, showing you how to simplify complicated flows, generate dynamic adaptive cards, and generate graphs and charts on the fly for real-time updates to SharePoint data.

By attending this session, you will learn how to leverage Office Scripts to execute JavaScript, TypeScript, and Excel formulas, providing more power and flexibility to your Power Automate solutions. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your development skills and become a more effective Microsoft 365 developer.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Power Automate
• Not hands-on

• Paul Papanek Stork

Using PowerApps and Flow Together: Made for each other

PowerApps and Flow are both powerful tools for the citizen and professional developer. But using them together can take your application to a whole new level.

In this talk we'll get you started with how to invoke a Flow from a PowerApp, how to pass information to the Flow, and how to return values back to PowerApps when the Flow completes. Along the way we'll discuss Best Practices that can make your PowerApps and Flow work more efficiently together.

Even if you know both PowerApps and Flow this session will help you get the most out of using them together.

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Power Apps
• Power Automate

• Ralph Rivas

Understanding Power Platform licensing

Get under the covers and find out what all this great functionality may cost by diving into the latest Microsoft information on licensing when using the the Power Platform.

This session is updated monthly with each publication of the latest Power Platform licensing guidance and also includes Roadmap changes that are publicly declared.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents

• Pam DeGraffenreid

Arrays Made Easy: How to Effectively Manage Data with Power Automate

In this session you will learn how to make arrays work for you in Power Automate! We'll cover essential tips and techniques for handling arrays in Power Automate, including how to create, manipulate, and iterate through arrays.

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, you'll gain valuable insights into how to streamline your workflows and maximize your productivity.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Power Automate
• N/A

• Peter Bian

Power Automate process mining deep-dive

Unlock the Hidden Potential of Your Processes with Power Automate Process Mining! Dive deep into the world of process mining, a cutting-edge data science field that unveils the secrets of your business operations. Discover how Microsoft's Power Automate Process Mining solution revolutionizes the way you understand and optimize your workflows. Through captivating real-life case studies, witness how companies have harnessed this transformative tool to streamline their operations, cut costs, and enhance productivity. Join us for an immersive journey into the power of process mining with Power Automate and take your business processes to the next level.

• Intermediate
• Power Automate
• Power Platform

• Harysh Menon

Teams, Power Automate and Copilot - automate Microsoft 365 like never before!

Learn about the different ways in which your organization can be more productive with Power Automate, M365 and Copilot.

Discover experiences across, SharePoint, Teams, Excel and Windows and Process mining-based insights that help you get time to focus on what's important.

• All
• AI/OpenAI
• Copilot
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power Automate

• Scott Shearer

Practical Power Automate Expressions

A deep knowledge of expressions is critical to maximizing the power of Power Automate.

In this demo rich session, we'll take a deep dive into the types of expressions available and how to apply them. You'll see how to combine expressions, use expressions to format email text, how to use and apply date and string expressions, how to use expressions with collections and arrays and more...

If you have a casual knowledge of Flow and want to "step up your game" with the use of expressions, attend this session!

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Power Automate

• Pam DeGraffenreid

From Beginner to Pro: 10 Essential Tips Using Power Automate and SharePoint

In this session, we’ll cover ten practical tips to help you streamline your workflows and boost productivity with SharePoint and Power Automate.

These tips are based on real-world use cases and common problems, so you can apply them immediately. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced user, these insights will help you work smarter, not harder.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Power Automate

• Gokan Ozcifci

Create Power Apps, Flows and chatbots directly from Teams with Dataverse

Dataverse for Teams allows you to use Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents on top of Dataverse inside of Teams without additional cost. But what does no cost mean? What are the differences between Dataverse and Dataverse for Teams, and how does that affect my Apps, Power Automate flows and PVA chatbots?
 
This session will compare Dataverse and Dataverse for Teams and build our data-driven app. We'll extend our app with Power Automate (with parameters and adaptative cards!) and finally make our chatbot. The goal of this session is to show you the power of these rich integrations that you most likely have available to you today and build apps without any extra cost!

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Not hands-on

• Luc Labelle

Implement Robotic Process Automation using Power Automate Desktop Flows

Join us in this session to get started with the Power Automate Desktop Flows, Microsoft’s Robotic Process Automation solution. During this session we will take a tour of the Power Automate Desktop application interface, look at the available controls and discuss some of the basic concepts around Robotic Process Automation.

We will show you in a step-by-step demo how you can record user actions such as mouse clicks, keyboard use, and data entry, and then replay those actions to automate this process.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Power Automate
• Power Platform

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Power Automate for Microsoft 365 Developers

Power Automate helps us to create intelligent automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to get notifications, synchronize files, collect data, and do much more.

Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) has opened Pandora's box of features that developers can use to build real-life enterprise-grade solutions using the low code paradigm. For example, calling the SharePoint REST APIs, calling Microsoft Graph APIs, calling External web services, and integrating with Azure services such as Azure Functions and Azure Dev Ops.

In this demo-driven session, we will cover how developers can use some of the rich feature sets of Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) and build real-life enterprise-grade business applications.

You will learn:
- How to use Azure AI Services like ChatGPT with Power Automate?
- How to consume the REST Endpoints using Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to consume Microsoft Graph APIs using Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to call Azure Function from Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to build enterprise-grade business applications in Microsoft 365 using
- Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to convert Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) to Logic Apps?

• Advanced
• Cloud & OnPrem
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents

• William Huneycutt

Advanced workflow solutions with Power Automate

Power Automate is the evolution of workflow for SharePoint and Microsoft 365. This session is designed to showcase building flows for no code/low code solutions for personal productivity, team productivity, and enterprise business processes.

Topics include:
* Data connectors, connections, and user accounts
* Types of cloud flows - automatic, instant, scheduled, AI built, desktop, and process advisor
* Flow elements - triggers, actions, and conditions
* Building flows using templates versus starting from blank
* Flow settings, run history, & debugging Advanced approval scenarios - escalation, delegation, and parallel approval
* Expressions, formulas, and functions for managing data
* Using OData to better work with larger data sets in SharePoint
* Power Automate and SharePoint limits and boundaries
* Real-world application, tips & tricks
* Licensing

Using real-world examples, we will demonstrate how to design flow solutions to meet the ever-changing business requirements faced by today’s business professionals.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Power Automate
• Not hands-on

• Craig Jahnke

ALM for Power Apps and Power Automate

Everyone talks about "No Code" or "Low Code" solutions and how easy they are to build. What nobody talks about is ALM (Application Lifecycle Management). Come to this sessions to learn about how to manage permissions and govern the environment and the solutions your users are creating.

We also will cover the Importing and Exporting packages and solutions, the Power Platform Center of Excellence, and using tools such as PowerShell, GitHub, and Power Platform Build Tools for Azure DevOps.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Not hands-on

• Ralph Rivas

Setting up your Power Platform Administrator Workstation in under an hour

Take a tour at the latest and state of the art tools that you can use and setup to help with efficient administration of all things Power Platform from straight up monitoring to controlling governance and deployment without drowning in micro-management tasks or process minutia.

This session covers a hands-on look at the Out-of-Box Power Platform admin center, the latest incarnation of the Center of Excellent kits (both the main and the Automation one!) as well as the Devops/ALM tools that fall into the domain of the administrator.

This is for those who need to set up things from scratch or have already immersed themselves in the administration role who may also be looking for some extra justification to get more monitors.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Treb Gatte

Power BI Bootcamp for SharePoint Professionals

NOTE: YOU WILL NEED A COMPUTER WITH THE LATEST VERSION OF POWER BI DESKTOP INSTALLED PRIOR TO WORKSHOP TIME. THIS IS A HANDS ON BOOTCAMP.

Need to create stunning dashboards from your SharePoint data?

Yes you do!

In this bootcamp, we’ll show you:
• How should I approach my BI need?
• What things should be considered when creating dashboards?
• What are the best practices?
• How much is this going to cost me to license?
• What security aspects should concern me?

Who should take this course:
If your company uses Office 365 or SharePoint 2013/2016 and you are a:
• Manager
• Business Analyst
• Power User
• SharePoint Administrator
• Consultant

If you work in these areas, you will see value:
• Marketing
• Information Technology
• Finance
• Sales
• Social Media

The class assumes no prior knowledge of Power BI and Data Concepts.

What is required for this class:
Install Microsoft Power BI Desktop on your laptop (recommended but not required)
We'll provide an Office 365 site for you to use for exercises

In this workshop you will:
• Learn how to create Production Dashboards using Power BI, from SharePoint list and document library data
• How to use Power BI in a multitude of situations, including ad hoc analysis and the creation of formal dashboard.
• Learn the Power BI components: Power BI Desktop, PowerBI.com, Power BI mobile applications and how they can be used with Office 365 and SharePoint
• Receive an introduction into the core functions of Power BI; Data extraction, loading and transformation using Power Query Formula Language (“M”) and DAX.
• Receive some guidelines on how to extract Project data in fast manner.
• Discover some data modeling practices that will ensure you have maximum flexibility in analysis. You'll also learn some visualization best practices to ensure you can tell your digital story effectively
• Learn best practices for maintaining content with your organization

This workshop provides an end to end view of Power BI for SharePoint reporting, so that you are able to use Power BI immediately for your needs.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Power BI
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Hands-On: Azure, Azure OpenAI & ChatGPT For Power Platform Developers Masterclass

Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code platform for rapidly building customized end-to-end business solutions. It consists of five product areas: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages. Each area can be used individually or together. Thanks to native integration with Azure, developers can use their cloud development skills to extend Microsoft Power Platform with different Azure services. With a low-code integrated development approach, business goals can be achieved faster and free up time for the developers.

In this hands-on workshop, we will cover how to use Azure for custom development in Microsoft Platform services like Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Virtual Agents, Dataverse, and Power BI.

We will cover:
• Microsoft Azure Key Concepts
• How does Power Platform use Azure?
• How can fusion teams take advantage of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?
• Authentication and Authorization in Azure
• Azure + Power Automate
• Azure + Power Apps
• Azure + Power Pages
• Azure + Power Virtual Agents
• Azure + Power BI
• Azure + Dataverse
• Azure OpenAI + Power Platform
• ChatGPT + Power Platform
• What are Azure Functions?
• What are Logic Apps?
• What is Azure Bot Service?
• How to create an enterprise-grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of Azure and how to use it to implement the customizations in the Microsoft Power Platform.

Access to Azure, Azure Open AI, and Microsoft Power Platform ( Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power BI ) will be provided to create the customization. The target audience of this hands-on workshop is Developers, Power Users, and IT Pros who want to get into development.

Please note: Attendees will need to bring their laptops with internet access and modern browsers like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. The tablets will not work.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power BI
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Scott Shearer

Power BI For The Absolute Beginner

Have you only heard of Power BI in passing or have always been the end-user but now are ready to learn and invest in this tool to bridge the gap between data and decision making? Then this is a must attend workshop for you.

Scott Shearer, a Microsoft Business Applications MVP and MCT, will take you on a journey into the Microsoft Power BI world. This demo-rich half day workshop will introduce you to Power BI - no experience necessary. Scott will walk you through how to use commonly used data sources to build reports that help visualize your data and create amazing experiences for the end users.

In this workshop, you'll be introduced to:
• Power BI Licensing
• Using the Power BI Desktop App
• Using the Power BI Service
• How to create reports and dashboards
• DAX fundamentals
• Learning resources
• And more (time permitting...)

Please note that this is not a hands-on workshop but attendees are welcome to follow along.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Power BI
• Power Platform
• Not hands-on

• John White
• Jason Himmelstein

Everything you wanted to know about Power BI (but were afraid to ask!)

Power BI is the gold standard for cloud based report delivery. It’s very approachable – you can get up and running with it in minutes, at the same time, it’s very robust, secure and extensible. As you might expect, it has many pieces and nuances, and it’s important to understand what is possible, even if you may not take immediate advantage of some features, in order to understand what to use when.

Join John White (MVP) and Jason Himmelstein (MVP) for this all-day tutorial which will help to guide you through building a complete analytical solution, using all the features of Power BI. We will start from nothing, and create queries that import and integrate data from many different sources. You will also learn how to refresh data using the on-premises data gateway and the personal gateway to connect to existing on-premises data from a variety of sources. In addition, you will see an overview of the many other additional features available in Power BI.

At the end of this seminar you will be ready to not only start using Power BI for your projects, but you will also understand which approach is best for different situations. Bring your questions, and we’ll do our best to answer them.

• All
• Cloud
• Power BI
• Not hands-on

• Scott Shearer

Beginners Guide to Power BI

This session will provide you with the knowledge that you need to quickly become productive using Power BI.

You will be introduced to:
- Power BI licensing
- Power BI Components
- Using the Power BI Desktop app
- Using the Power BI Service
- How to create reports and dashboards
- Learning Resources

Don't have a Power BI license? You can start using Power BI for free!

Attend this demo-rich session and get started with Power BI!

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Power BI
• Not hands-on

• John White
• Jason Himmelstein

Power BI Premium – When Do I Need It?

Power BI Premium is a way to get past many limitations of the shared Power BI service. However, with great power comes great responsibility.

This session will outline exactly what Power BI Premium is, what features it unlocks and what limitations it changes. We will also call out situations where Premium may not be appropriate, and the steps that you need to take to ensure that you get the maximum value from it.

If you’re considering a move to Power BI Premium, you’ll want to attend this session.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Power BI
• Not hands-on

• Daniel Glenn

Build your first Power BI dashboard

Creating compelling reports is an important skill in our data-centric world. Have you seen a nice-looking report or dashboard and wondered how you can get started creating one? Are you interested in learning how to create a Power BI dashboard, from simple data to actionable intelligence? Then this session is for you!

In this session, we will talk about the building blocks of Power BI, look at different types of data you can use, and define what makes a good dashboard.

You will learn when to use Power BI Desktop and when you need the Power BI service. We will also discuss how you can safely share Power BI insights inside and outside of your organization.

You will leave this session with the resources you need to get started in your journey with Power BI.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Power BI
• N/A

• Heather Newman

Highlights on What’s New for Microsoft Power Platform and Community

In this exciting session, get ready to dive into the latest updates and advancements in the Microsoft Power Platform and the thriving community surrounding it.

Discover the newest features and enhancements across Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents, and learn how these updates can supercharge your productivity and unlock new possibilities for building innovative solutions.

Explore the vibrant Power Platform community, its valuable resources, and collaborative opportunities, and gain insights into how developers and enthusiasts are leveraging the platform to drive digital transformation and solve real-world challenges.

• All
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power BI
• Power Platform

• John Kerski

DataOps 101 – A Better Way to Develop and Deliver Data Analytics

Power BI has revolutionized the industry by accelerating our ability to deliver Data Analytics solutions. But how do we ensure the code we build is reliable and the data is produced in a timely and trustworthy manner?

Enter DataOps, a better way to develop and deliver Data Analytics Solutions.

In this session, I’ll cover the concept of DataOps, why it matters to Power BI, and the principles that can drive you to continuously improve.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Power BI

• John White
• Jason Himmelstein

Azure Monitor, Azure Data Explorer and Power BI, Oh My!

Log Analytics and Application Insights are increasingly becoming the storage mechanism of choice for telemetry data. At its core is Azure Data Explorer (ADX) or "Kusto", and the KQL language for analysis, which can also be used independently. Power BI is of course the standard for data analysis and reporting in the Microsoft ecosystem.

It's easy enough for Power BI to report on Log Analytics and ADX data, but the devil is in the details. When should you use native KQL Queries? When should you use Direct Query? What about Hybrid tables and aggregations?

This session will dive deeply into the nuances of reporting on both Log Analytics and ADX data with Power BI.

• Advanced
• Cloud
• Azure/o365 Development
• Power BI

• Daniel Glenn

Power BI Sharing - Your Options for Keeping Everyone Informed

Every organization is a data organization and you must collaborate on data to stay on track. Sharing insights from within Power BI will give you an advantage and help steer your organization in the right direction.

However there are some pitfalls with sharing - if you don’t know your options and set proper governance, you could be on your way to a data breach or giving your private information to the competition.

In this session, you will get a short introduction to Power BI and understand where data resides, why and how you should share with your colleagues and outside partners, and get a strategy for setting governance for your data. You will walk away with the outline of a governance plan, an understanding of your sharing options, and the sharing settings you should immediately turn off.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Power BI
• N/A

• Treb Gatte

Power BI Metrics - Tracking the metrics that matter to you

Metrics and scorecards are a Power BI feature that enables you to track and act upon on the metrics that matter to your organization.

In this presentation, you'll learn
1. What are Power BI Metrics and how are they intended to be used
2. See some examples of real-world scorecards
3. See how to set up a scorecard demo
4. Show you how to set up Power Automate to trigger actions when a metric status changes
5. Show the Metric integration in Microsoft Teams

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power Automate
• Power BI
• Power Platform

• Evan Friel

Supercharge Power BI with Write-back & Planning

Ever need to go beyond analysis in Power BI? Wish you could enter data, model, forecast, add detailed comments, and write-back in real-time? You can, with Power ON.

During this session, you will learn how to build write-back enabled Power BI reports yourself, streamline planning cycles, make comments on data points, design models on the fly, perform what-if scenarios, and write-back to over 200 data sources.

And for Excel-lovers, we’ll share how our Power XL brings you the future of Power BI interaction; now! Enabling the same write-back, commentary, and planning capabilities with full client-side spreadsheet functionality, all controlled inside Power BI.

This session will feature real-world success stories and use cases, including Sales Forecasting, Demand Planning, Capacity Planning, and more.

Join us to learn how you can Supercharge your Microsoft Power BI with Collaborative Data Enrichment, Modeling, Planning, Reporting & Write-back.

• All
• Power BI

• John White
• Jason Himmelstein

Deep Dive on Power BI, Teams and SharePoint

Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Power BI can work very well together. SharePoint can be a data source (lists), a container for data files (Excel. CSV etc in libraries), and as a dashboarding platform (pages). Teams can be a complete front end for Power BI, and host content contextually.

This demo rich session will explore all of these scenarios in great depth. SharePoint data can be finicky to retrieve, and this session will show examples and suggest a few best practices for doing so. In addition, connecting Power BI to SharePoint opens up a whole new world for Excel. If it can be done with Power BI, SharePoint and Teams, this session will show you how.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Power BI
• Not hands-on

• John Kerski

DataOps 201 – Bringing DataOps to Power BI

Are you interested in the practical application of DataOps within Power BI?

In this session I’ll share lessons learned, best practices, and the free starter code to incorporate into your current or next project. And wait, there’s more! I will also demonstrate how to automatically build, test, and promote datasets and dataflows.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Power BI

• John White
• Jason Himmelstein

There's No Time Like the Present - Real Time Reporting with Power BI

Power BI has many options for keeping your data up to date, but what happens when scheduled refreshes simply aren't enough? What do you do when real time or near real time reporting on your data is necessary? Fortunately, Power BI has you covered here as well. From real-time datasets, to Direct Query and the Aggregations feature, there are more than a few options for accomplishing this goal, but they all do come with a few tradeoffs.

This demonstration laden session will examine all of the techniques available to Power BI for reporting on your data in real time, highlight some of the things to watch out for, and how to design for them. If you need your data more up to date than what refresh schedules can provide, then this session is for you.

• Advanced
• Cloud
• Power BI
• Not hands-on

• John Kerski

Querying Power BI REST APIs within a Power BI Dataset

Would you like to build a Power BI dataset that could inventory your workspaces, reports, datasets, and refresh schedule? Would you'd like to query another dataset to import into your dataset?

In this session I'll show you how to leverage an open-source custom connector that connects to Power BI's REST APIs to do just that.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Power BI

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Hands-On: Azure, Azure OpenAI & ChatGPT For Power Platform Developers Masterclass

Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code platform for rapidly building customized end-to-end business solutions. It consists of five product areas: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages. Each area can be used individually or together. Thanks to native integration with Azure, developers can use their cloud development skills to extend Microsoft Power Platform with different Azure services. With a low-code integrated development approach, business goals can be achieved faster and free up time for the developers.

In this hands-on workshop, we will cover how to use Azure for custom development in Microsoft Platform services like Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Virtual Agents, Dataverse, and Power BI.

We will cover:
• Microsoft Azure Key Concepts
• How does Power Platform use Azure?
• How can fusion teams take advantage of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?
• Authentication and Authorization in Azure
• Azure + Power Automate
• Azure + Power Apps
• Azure + Power Pages
• Azure + Power Virtual Agents
• Azure + Power BI
• Azure + Dataverse
• Azure OpenAI + Power Platform
• ChatGPT + Power Platform
• What are Azure Functions?
• What are Logic Apps?
• What is Azure Bot Service?
• How to create an enterprise-grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of Azure and how to use it to implement the customizations in the Microsoft Power Platform.

Access to Azure, Azure Open AI, and Microsoft Power Platform ( Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power BI ) will be provided to create the customization. The target audience of this hands-on workshop is Developers, Power Users, and IT Pros who want to get into development.

Please note: Attendees will need to bring their laptops with internet access and modern browsers like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. The tablets will not work.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power BI
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform Better Together

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI has caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. In this demo-driven workshop, Microsoft Business Applications and AI MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer Prashant G Bhoyar will cover how organizations can use Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform services to build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement.

We will cover :
• The new and improved Power Virtual Agents key concepts
• Copilot in Power Virtual Agents
• Azure Open AI Key Concepts
• ChatGPT key concepts
• How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Power Platform?
• Authentication and Authorization in Azure
• Azure API Management
• Azure Communication Services
• Power Platform Custom Connectors
• Azure Open AI + Power Virtual Agents
• ChatGPT + Power Virtual Agents
• How organizations can build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement with Power Virtual Agents, Azure, Power Platform, ChatGPT, and Azure Open AI

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of how to build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement with Power Virtual Agents, Azure, Power Platform, ChatGPT, and Azure Open AI.

• Advanced
• Cloud & OnPrem
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents
• N/A

• Amarender Peddamalku

Build external-facing websites using Power Pages

Microsoft Power Pages is a secure, enterprise-grade, low-code software as a service (SaaS) platform for creating, hosting, and administering modern external-facing business websites. Power Pages provides you with rich, customizable templates, a fluid visual experience through a reimagined design studio, and a new, integrated learning hub to quickly build sites that suit your unique business needs.

We'll learn how to create powerful external-facing websites that allow users outside their organizations to sign in with a wide variety of identities, create and view data in Microsoft Dataverse, or even browse content anonymously.

Also, we'll learn to quickly create a website and customize it with pages, layout, and content.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Power Pages
• Power Platform

• Prashant G Bhoyar

ChatGPT, Azure Open AI and Power Platform: Better Together

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI has caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. In this demo-driven session, we will cover the key concepts and how organizations can use ChatGPT, Azure Open AI, and Power Platform services to build next-gen enterprise-grade applications.

We will cover :
- Azure Open AI Key Concepts
- ChatGPT key concepts
- Co-Pilots in the Power Platform
- How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Power Platform?
- How organizations can build next-gen enterprise-grade apps using ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI, and Power Platform services?

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Power Fx for Absolute Beginners

Power Fx is the low-code language that can be used across the Microsoft Power Platform. It's a general-purpose, strong-typed, declarative, and functional programming language. Citizen developers and Professional developers can use it to build business applications.

In this demo-drive session, we will cover the following topics in detail.
• What is Power Fx?
• What are Data Types?
• What are Operators and identifiers, Tables, Variables, Imperative logic, and Global support?
• How can we use Power Fx in Power Platform to build the business application?
• Power Fx Best Practices

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents
• N/A

• Ralph Rivas

Understanding Power Platform licensing

Get under the covers and find out what all this great functionality may cost by diving into the latest Microsoft information on licensing when using the the Power Platform.

This session is updated monthly with each publication of the latest Power Platform licensing guidance and also includes Roadmap changes that are publicly declared.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents

• Ralph Rivas

Setting up your Power Platform Administrator Workstation in under an hour

Take a tour at the latest and state of the art tools that you can use and setup to help with efficient administration of all things Power Platform from straight up monitoring to controlling governance and deployment without drowning in micro-management tasks or process minutia.

This session covers a hands-on look at the Out-of-Box Power Platform admin center, the latest incarnation of the Center of Excellent kits (both the main and the Automation one!) as well as the Devops/ALM tools that fall into the domain of the administrator.

This is for those who need to set up things from scratch or have already immersed themselves in the administration role who may also be looking for some extra justification to get more monitors.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Paul Papanek Stork

Automate your Business Processes with Power Apps and Power Automate

Learn how to start using Power Apps and Power Automate (Flow) with SharePoint Online to automate your daily workload. Discover how to use connections to connect Power Apps to services like SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Excel, Outlook and even SharePoint on-premise.

In this session I'll show you how to use Power Apps to:
- Customize SharePoint list forms with Power Apps
- Create a canvas app based on a SharePoint list
- Connect to other data sources
- Apply Themes, branding, and layouts
- Manage custom conditional formatting
- Use the Formula bar to create complex functions
- Share your Power Apps with colleagues

This session will also discuss how to get started with Power Automate (Flow). Learn how to create custom Flows in an easy-to-use visual designer right in a web browser.

In this session I'll show you how to use Power Automate (Flow) to:
- Connect to data in the cloud and on-premises
- Use triggers to start your flow
- Control branching in your flow with conditions and switches
- Review the run history of your Workflows
- Share your flows with colleagues
- How Licensing works

SharePoint is the underlying data storage system for OneDrive, Teams, and much more. Learning to use Power Apps and Power Automate (Flow) can help to address the challenges faced by today’s information workers.

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Hands-On: Azure, Azure OpenAI & ChatGPT For Power Platform Developers Masterclass

Microsoft Power Platform is a low-code platform for rapidly building customized end-to-end business solutions. It consists of five product areas: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages. Each area can be used individually or together. Thanks to native integration with Azure, developers can use their cloud development skills to extend Microsoft Power Platform with different Azure services. With a low-code integrated development approach, business goals can be achieved faster and free up time for the developers.

In this hands-on workshop, we will cover how to use Azure for custom development in Microsoft Platform services like Power Automate, Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Virtual Agents, Dataverse, and Power BI.

We will cover:
• Microsoft Azure Key Concepts
• How does Power Platform use Azure?
• How can fusion teams take advantage of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?
• Authentication and Authorization in Azure
• Azure + Power Automate
• Azure + Power Apps
• Azure + Power Pages
• Azure + Power Virtual Agents
• Azure + Power BI
• Azure + Dataverse
• Azure OpenAI + Power Platform
• ChatGPT + Power Platform
• What are Azure Functions?
• What are Logic Apps?
• What is Azure Bot Service?
• How to create an enterprise-grade app using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform?

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of Azure and how to use it to implement the customizations in the Microsoft Power Platform.

Access to Azure, Azure Open AI, and Microsoft Power Platform ( Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power BI ) will be provided to create the customization. The target audience of this hands-on workshop is Developers, Power Users, and IT Pros who want to get into development.

Please note: Attendees will need to bring their laptops with internet access and modern browsers like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. The tablets will not work.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power BI
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Scott Shearer

Power BI For The Absolute Beginner

Have you only heard of Power BI in passing or have always been the end-user but now are ready to learn and invest in this tool to bridge the gap between data and decision making? Then this is a must attend workshop for you.

Scott Shearer, a Microsoft Business Applications MVP and MCT, will take you on a journey into the Microsoft Power BI world. This demo-rich half day workshop will introduce you to Power BI - no experience necessary. Scott will walk you through how to use commonly used data sources to build reports that help visualize your data and create amazing experiences for the end users.

In this workshop, you'll be introduced to:
• Power BI Licensing
• Using the Power BI Desktop App
• Using the Power BI Service
• How to create reports and dashboards
• DAX fundamentals
• Learning resources
• And more (time permitting...)

Please note that this is not a hands-on workshop but attendees are welcome to follow along.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Power BI
• Power Platform
• Not hands-on

• Scott Shearer

Power Automate Cloud Flows for the Absolute Beginner

If you want to start creating Power Automate Cloud Flows and have little to no experience, this session is for you!

Here's what you'll learn:
- What are Power Automate Cloud Flows and why you should care
- Types of Cloud Flows
- How to create Flows from a template and from scratch
- How to debug your Flows
- Power Automate and SharePoint, Excel and other data sources
- Power Automate Expressions
- Power Automate approvals
And more…

All concepts will be presented using live demos.
While this is not a hands-on session, attendees are welcome to follow along.

Attend this session and gain the skills that you need to star creating Power Automate Cloud Flows today!

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Not hands-on

• Paul Papanek Stork

Advanced Power Apps and Power Automate: Workarounds for Common Problems

Spend any amount of time in the Power Platform forums and you will begin to see a lot of similar questions asked over and over again.

In this workshop we will look at some of the most common issues Citizen Developers encounter when trying to develop applications and workflows in the Power Platform. We'll examine each type of problem, analyze why they occur, and provide workarounds that you can use when you encounter them.

The workshop will be divided into two parts. In the first we'll concentrate on Power Apps and in the second we'll look at Power Automate.

Here is a general list of the overall topics we will cover:
• Morning: Power Apps
○ Delegation
○ Working with Dates and Times
○ Conditional Formatting of data
○ Passing Data to and Retrieving Results from a Flow
• Afternoon: Power Automate
○ Using Conditions and Switches effectively
○ Handling Loops and Parallel Branches
○ Working with Large Data Sources
○ Implementing Error Checking/Correction
○ Improving Performance

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Scott Shearer
• Wes Preston

Power Apps for SharePoint Bootcamp

You'll see where Power Apps fits in your toolset and how Power Apps can extend and build interfaces where you may have used InfoPath in the past. Demos and exercises will be used to illustrate the topics covered. You'll have the opportunity to "take the wheel" and test out Power Apps for yourself. Through a series of hands-on labs, you'll gain first-hand experience in customizing SharePoint/List forms with Power Apps and extending Lists and Teams user experiences. Your instructors will be there to assist anytime you have questions or need some help.

Attend this workshop and say goodbye to InfoPath. Gain the skills you'll need to immediately start customizing your Microsoft 365 SharePoint and Teams sites with Power Apps and Power Automate.

Notes and Requirements:
To participate in the hands-on portion of this workshop, attendees should bring a laptop computer. Attendees who bring tablets, even with keyboards, will likely experience difficulties in successfully completing the labs.

We will be using Power Apps, SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, Teams and other Microsoft 365 components in our labs. Attendees may choose to use a personally owned or corporate Microsoft 365 tenant. If not, please register for a free Microsoft 365 Developer tenant prior to the workshop here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program

If you will be using a company-provided laptop and will not be using your corporate tenant, please verify that you are able to connect to the Microsoft 365 environment that you will be using prior to arrival.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/d8brL7-GDAc

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Power Apps
• Power Platform
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform Better Together

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI has caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. In this demo-driven workshop, Microsoft Business Applications and AI MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer Prashant G Bhoyar will cover how organizations can use Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Power Platform services to build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement.

We will cover :
• The new and improved Power Virtual Agents key concepts
• Copilot in Power Virtual Agents
• Azure Open AI Key Concepts
• ChatGPT key concepts
• How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Power Platform?
• Authentication and Authorization in Azure
• Azure API Management
• Azure Communication Services
• Power Platform Custom Connectors
• Azure Open AI + Power Virtual Agents
• ChatGPT + Power Virtual Agents
• How organizations can build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement with Power Virtual Agents, Azure, Power Platform, ChatGPT, and Azure Open AI

At the end of the workshop, attendees will have a working knowledge of how to build next-gen end-to-end customer engagement with Power Virtual Agents, Azure, Power Platform, ChatGPT, and Azure Open AI.

• Advanced
• Cloud & OnPrem
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents
• N/A

• Scott Shearer
• Wes Preston

Power Automate for SharePoint Bootcamp

We will start the afternoon with an overview of Power Automate. You'll learn about the different types of Flows that can be created with Power Automate and will start creating Flows yourself.

We'll then dive into Power Automate concepts including expressions, variables and loops. We'll move on to thoroughly covering how to use Power Automate with SharePoint. Finally, we see how to integrate Power Apps and Power Automate.

Live demos will be used to demonstrate all of these concepts. You'll have the opportunity to implement what you have learned through a series of hands-on labs.

Notes and Requirements:
To participate in the hands-on portion of this workshop, attendees should bring a laptop computer. Attendees who bring tablets, even with keyboards, will likely experience difficulties in successfully completing the labs.

We will be using Power Apps, SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, Teams, and other Microsoft 365 components in our labs. Attendees may choose to use a personally owned or corporate Microsoft 365 tenant. If not, please register for a free Microsoft 365 Developer tenant prior to the workshop here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/dev-program

If you will be using a company-provided laptop and will not be using your corporate tenant, please verify that you are able to connect to the Microsoft 365 environment that you will be using prior to arrival.

Check out our workshop preview: https://youtu.be/d8brL7-GDAc

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Wes Preston

Intro to Power Apps for Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Lists

If you create business solutions with SharePoint lists
If you surface information and solutions via Microsoft Teams or SharePoint
If you're concerned with the potential complexity of Power Apps

This session will show why Power Apps canvas apps should be considered part of your toolset.

We will cover:
- Simple extensions of the SharePoint list experience with Power Apps
- How to take data from SharePoint lists to Teams and mobile experiences
- Power Apps examples that bring immediate value and set the stage for further enhancements

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Power Apps
• Power Platform

• Amarender Peddamalku

Build external-facing websites using Power Pages

Microsoft Power Pages is a secure, enterprise-grade, low-code software as a service (SaaS) platform for creating, hosting, and administering modern external-facing business websites. Power Pages provides you with rich, customizable templates, a fluid visual experience through a reimagined design studio, and a new, integrated learning hub to quickly build sites that suit your unique business needs.

We'll learn how to create powerful external-facing websites that allow users outside their organizations to sign in with a wide variety of identities, create and view data in Microsoft Dataverse, or even browse content anonymously.

Also, we'll learn to quickly create a website and customize it with pages, layout, and content.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Power Pages
• Power Platform

• Prashant G Bhoyar

ChatGPT, Azure Open AI and Power Platform: Better Together

With ChatGPT, other large language models and generative AI has caught the attention of global consumers, enterprises, and c-suite. In this demo-driven session, we will cover the key concepts and how organizations can use ChatGPT, Azure Open AI, and Power Platform services to build next-gen enterprise-grade applications.

We will cover :
- Azure Open AI Key Concepts
- ChatGPT key concepts
- Co-Pilots in the Power Platform
- How can fusion teams take advantage of Azure Open AI, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Power Platform?
- How organizations can build next-gen enterprise-grade apps using ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI, and Power Platform services?

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents

• Heather Newman

Highlights on What’s New for Microsoft Power Platform and Community

In this exciting session, get ready to dive into the latest updates and advancements in the Microsoft Power Platform and the thriving community surrounding it.

Discover the newest features and enhancements across Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents, and learn how these updates can supercharge your productivity and unlock new possibilities for building innovative solutions.

Explore the vibrant Power Platform community, its valuable resources, and collaborative opportunities, and gain insights into how developers and enthusiasts are leveraging the platform to drive digital transformation and solve real-world challenges.

• All
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power BI
• Power Platform

• Paul Papanek Stork

Microsoft Power Apps: Building Responsive Design Apps for Every Device

Power Apps is a great no-code tool lets "citizen developers" create applications that are designed to run on Desktop PCs, Web Browsers, Tablets, and Mobile devices. But if you want to avoid building 3 or 4 different versions of your App you need to know how to design your Power App to adjust for different sizes, resolutions, rotation, and types of layouts.

In this session we'll review all the Tips and Tricks you need to know to easily build one Power App that will adjust to work on any device that supports Power Apps and look good in the process.

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Power Apps
• Power Platform

• Jessica Lo

How to build scalable apps with Power Apps and Dataverse

In this session, we will explore the powerful combination of Power Apps and Dataverse for building scalable applications. Discover how to leverage the robust features of Power Apps to create custom applications and extend their capabilities using the rich data model provided by Dataverse.

Learn best practices for designing scalable apps, optimizing performance, and ensuring data integrity, enabling you to deliver high-quality solutions that can grow with your organization's needs

• Intermediate
• Dataverse
• Power Platform

• Luc Labelle

Get started with the Power Platform Center of Excellence starter Kit

The Microsoft Power Platform CoE toolkit is a collection of components and tools that are designed to help you get started with developing a strategy for adopting and supporting Microsoft Power Platform, with a focus on Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents.

Join us in this session as we deploy and explore the components of the Power Platform CoE Starter Kit.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Power Platform
• Not hands-on

• Mark Kashman
• Liz Sundet
• Cathy Dew
• Michelle Gilbert
• Heather Newman
• Marc Mroz
• Harysh Menon

Microsoft AMA + SharePint

Got a burning question you just can't yet find an answer to? This AMA is to be a lively live hour of Q&A - to ask questions and voice feedback - direct to the product teams across OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Viva, Syntex, Yammer, Power Platform, and more.
And then enjoy pizza and casual networking with all.
You'll come in scratching your head and leave with a head full of answers, and maybe a belly full of 'za.

• All
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power Platform
• Keynote

• Luc Labelle

Create Adaptative Cards with Power Apps

Power Apps cards are micro-apps with enterprise data and workflows and interactive, lightweight UI elements that other applications can use as content. Because they're part of the Power Apps ecosystem, cards can add business logic through Power Fx and integration with business data through Power Platform connectors. Using cards, you can quickly build and share rich, actionable apps without any coding or IT expertise.

Join us in this session to get started with Card in Power Apps. We will take a tour of the Power App Card Designer, go over the controls it has to offer, connect to different data sources and send a Card to a Teams channel.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Power Platform
• Not hands-on

• Wes Preston

Forms, Forms, and more Forms. Data gathering for the modern info worker

Microsoft List (and SharePoint) forms, Forms with Power Apps, and Microsoft Forms. Which one (or more) should you use, and when?

This session will walk through updated capabilities and options available to no-code makers and citizen developers when building solutions with forms.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power Platform
• Power User

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Power Fx for Absolute Beginners

Power Fx is the low-code language that can be used across the Microsoft Power Platform. It's a general-purpose, strong-typed, declarative, and functional programming language. Citizen developers and Professional developers can use it to build business applications.

In this demo-drive session, we will cover the following topics in detail.
• What is Power Fx?
• What are Data Types?
• What are Operators and identifiers, Tables, Variables, Imperative logic, and Global support?
• How can we use Power Fx in Power Platform to build the business application?
• Power Fx Best Practices

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents
• N/A

• Treb Gatte

Power BI Metrics - Tracking the metrics that matter to you

Metrics and scorecards are a Power BI feature that enables you to track and act upon on the metrics that matter to your organization.

In this presentation, you'll learn
1. What are Power BI Metrics and how are they intended to be used
2. See some examples of real-world scorecards
3. See how to set up a scorecard demo
4. Show you how to set up Power Automate to trigger actions when a metric status changes
5. Show the Metric integration in Microsoft Teams

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power Automate
• Power BI
• Power Platform

• Matt Meyer
• Alex Drozd

Using Power Apps as A Rapidly Deployable Front End for Open AI

In this session we will go over how to configure create a custom connector that accesses Microsoft Cognitive Services Face API. We will then build a Power App that will be used to configure and train face models and be used for facial recognition.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Power Platform

• Ralph Rivas

Understanding Power Platform licensing

Get under the covers and find out what all this great functionality may cost by diving into the latest Microsoft information on licensing when using the the Power Platform.

This session is updated monthly with each publication of the latest Power Platform licensing guidance and also includes Roadmap changes that are publicly declared.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents

• Martina Grom
• Toni Pohl

Better together: Viva Connections and the Power Platform

In this session Martina and Toni will take a look on how to implement Viva Connections. With the powerful toolset behind the Power Platform you will learn how to solve business requirements for mobile users.

• Advanced
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Business Value
• Power Platform
• Viva

• Mike Stall
• Anderson Ferreira da Silva

Power Fx in Power Platform

With Power Fx now powering Power Virtual Agents, Dataverse, and Cards, it is a great time to use your knowledge of Power Apps’ formulas to leverage more of the Power Platform. But let’s take that up a notch, from leveraging knowledge to leveraging running code. We’ll show you how to easily move custom logic to where it can be leveraged most, for example out of a single app and into Dataverse formula columns and actions where all apps and Power Automate can leverage it. Within Power Apps, we’ll show you how named formulas, user defined functions, and components enable leverage within an app and across apps, greatly improving performance and manageability. And we’ll show you how you can enable these same low code customizations in your own projects with open-source Power Fx.

• Advanced
• Power Apps
• Power Platform

• Peter Bian

Power Automate process mining deep-dive

Unlock the Hidden Potential of Your Processes with Power Automate Process Mining! Dive deep into the world of process mining, a cutting-edge data science field that unveils the secrets of your business operations. Discover how Microsoft's Power Automate Process Mining solution revolutionizes the way you understand and optimize your workflows. Through captivating real-life case studies, witness how companies have harnessed this transformative tool to streamline their operations, cut costs, and enhance productivity. Join us for an immersive journey into the power of process mining with Power Automate and take your business processes to the next level.

• Intermediate
• Power Automate
• Power Platform

• Gokan Ozcifci

Create Power Apps, Flows and chatbots directly from Teams with Dataverse

Dataverse for Teams allows you to use Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents on top of Dataverse inside of Teams without additional cost. But what does no cost mean? What are the differences between Dataverse and Dataverse for Teams, and how does that affect my Apps, Power Automate flows and PVA chatbots?
 
This session will compare Dataverse and Dataverse for Teams and build our data-driven app. We'll extend our app with Power Automate (with parameters and adaptative cards!) and finally make our chatbot. The goal of this session is to show you the power of these rich integrations that you most likely have available to you today and build apps without any extra cost!

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Power Apps
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Not hands-on

• Luc Labelle

Implement Robotic Process Automation using Power Automate Desktop Flows

Join us in this session to get started with the Power Automate Desktop Flows, Microsoft’s Robotic Process Automation solution. During this session we will take a tour of the Power Automate Desktop application interface, look at the available controls and discuss some of the basic concepts around Robotic Process Automation.

We will show you in a step-by-step demo how you can record user actions such as mouse clicks, keyboard use, and data entry, and then replay those actions to automate this process.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Power Automate
• Power Platform

• Kartik Kanakasabesan

Azure, Visual Studio and Power Platform

In this session, how you as a developer using Azure, Visual Studio, and Power Platform, build rich applications and the experiences to help you accelerate building such applications, quicker, faster, and better

• Intermediate
• Azure/o365 Development
• Power Platform

• Prashant G Bhoyar

Power Automate for Microsoft 365 Developers

Power Automate helps us to create intelligent automated workflows between your favorite apps and services to get notifications, synchronize files, collect data, and do much more.

Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) has opened Pandora's box of features that developers can use to build real-life enterprise-grade solutions using the low code paradigm. For example, calling the SharePoint REST APIs, calling Microsoft Graph APIs, calling External web services, and integrating with Azure services such as Azure Functions and Azure Dev Ops.

In this demo-driven session, we will cover how developers can use some of the rich feature sets of Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) and build real-life enterprise-grade business applications.

You will learn:
- How to use Azure AI Services like ChatGPT with Power Automate?
- How to consume the REST Endpoints using Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to consume Microsoft Graph APIs using Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to call Azure Function from Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to build enterprise-grade business applications in Microsoft 365 using
- Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow )?
- How to convert Power Automate ( Microsoft Flow ) to Logic Apps?

• Advanced
• Cloud & OnPrem
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Platform
• Virtual Agents

• Treb Gatte

Automate manual processes by converting Documents to Data with Syntex, AI Builder, and Power BI

Are you looking for ways to save your company money? Let us show you how to use Content AI to automate traditionally manual processes, like invoice reconciliation.

Content AI, which includes Microsoft Syntex, forms the basis for this solution. According to Forrester, today’s organizations have 73% of their critical information locked away in their Content Estate, scattered amongst PDFs and other unstructured, hard to analyze file formats. Until now, the process to extract and use this information has been manual, time-consuming, and expensive. How many people does your org have rekeying data, for example?

Learn how you can use Microsoft’s new Content AI technology to convert documents to data at scale.

Using SharePoint Syntex, AI Builder, and Power BI, you see how to build a competitor product comparison with your own product. You’ll see how to:
- Create an extraction model using AI Builder
- Attach that model to a SharePoint library
- Have SharePoint Syntex extract the data from the documents automatically
- Use the new Power BI integration with SharePoint, using your structured data for analysis.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Content Management
• Power Platform
• Syntex

• Martina Grom
• Toni Pohl

Unleashing the Power of Adaptive Cards in Viva Connections

In this session, we'll explore the versatility of Adaptive Cards in Microsoft 365, focusing on how they can be leveraged in Viva Connections (and Outlook and Microsoft Teams) to create custom experiences and streamline workflows. We'll explore both low-code and pro-code solutions and demonstrate how they can be used to solve common use cases such as creating interactive forms, notifications, and more.

Additionally, we'll present a decision framework to help determine when custom development is appropriate versus when low-code solutions can be used. This will include an examination of factors such as timeline, budget, technical requirements, and desired outcomes.
 
Key Takeaways:
- Understanding the basics of Adaptive Cards and their capabilities in Viva Connections
- Hands-on demos of low-code solutions for building custom experiences
- A decision framework for choosing between custom development and low-code solutions
- Real-world examples of Adaptive Cards in action
- Best practices for leveraging Adaptive Cards in a Microsoft 365 environment, specifically for Viva Connections.

• Expert
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Azure/o365 Development
• Business Value
• Power Platform
• Viva

• Ralph Rivas

Setting up your Power Platform Administrator Workstation in under an hour

Take a tour at the latest and state of the art tools that you can use and setup to help with efficient administration of all things Power Platform from straight up monitoring to controlling governance and deployment without drowning in micro-management tasks or process minutia.

This session covers a hands-on look at the Out-of-Box Power Platform admin center, the latest incarnation of the Center of Excellent kits (both the main and the Automation one!) as well as the Devops/ALM tools that fall into the domain of the administrator.

This is for those who need to set up things from scratch or have already immersed themselves in the administration role who may also be looking for some extra justification to get more monitors.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power Pages
• Power Platform
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• William Huneycutt

Next level productivity with Microsoft 365 Copilot

Are you looking to take your productivity to the next level? Microsoft 365 Copilot will help you achieve just that! In this hands-on workshop where you'll learn how OpenAI is integrated into Microsoft 365 to streamline your business processes, automate tasks, improve workflows, and increase productivity while saving time and effort.

You'll explore how to use Microsoft's new Bing Chat powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT to get more relevant, up-to-date, and annotated search results using natural language chat. You'll learn how to use the new Bing Chat to help you write emails, summarize documents, create presentations, and more in Microsoft 365 apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Microsoft Edge.

You'll discover how to use Microsoft Teams premium features powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 AI language model such as:
Intelligent recap: A summary of the meeting with key points and tasks.
Smart transcription: A live transcript of the meeting with speakers and edits.
Meeting insights: A dashboard that shows relevant information for the meeting.
Live captions: A real-time translation of the speech into different languages.

You’ll also learn how to use Power Apps and Power Automate where you can describe what you want in natural language and let AI build it for you! For example, you can use Power Apps “Ideas” to create an app from a description3, or use Power Automate “create a cloud flow from a description” or “format data by example” features3 to automate your data processing.

The future of the modern workplace is here! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how Microsoft 365 and OpenAI can help you achieve more with less effort! With hands-on exercises and practical tips, you'll leave the workshop with a solid understanding of how to use Microsoft 365 and OpenAI to maximize your productivity.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Copilot
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power User
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Mike Maadarani
• Sarah Haase

Maximizing Microsoft 365 Productivity: Practical Strategies and Use Cases for Power Users

Are you ready to supercharge your Microsoft 365 skills and take your productivity to the next level? Join us for a dynamic and interactive workshop covering practical productivity tips for using the Microsoft 365 ecosystem to improve your and your team's everyday workflows.

In this workshop, you'll learn from experts who will showcase real-world examples of how to leverage the full potential of Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, Microsoft Teams, OneNote, Planner, OneDrive, Microsoft Forms, Microsoft Lists, and Microsoft Viva. We will also discuss Microsoft Loop and the newly announced Microsoft 365 Copilot!

You'll come away with the best ways to use the many tools in the Microsoft 365 toolbelt, including which apps work best in different scenarios. On top of that, you'll get examples of bringing multiple apps together to extend the value of your digital workplace, based on proven practices your presenters have seen work well for power users in other organizations.

From advanced collaboration techniques to automating everyday tasks, you'll come away with practical tips and tricks that you can put into action right away.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power Automate
• Power User
• Not hands-on

• William Huneycutt

Microsoft 365 Power User Workshop

The complete Microsoft 365 workshop – from beginner to power user in a single day! This comprehensive workshop covers everything you need to know to get started quickly with Microsoft
365.

Upon completion of this workshop, you’ll know how to:
* Meet, chat, and work together more efficiently using Microsoft Teams.
* Manage and share content with SharePoint and OneDrive.
* Manage tasks and projects better with Planner, To-do, and Lists.
* Connect and engage with Outlook and Yammer.
* Organize and stay in sync across chat, meetings, or documents using Loop.
* Create and be more productive with Whiteboard, Forms, Word, * Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and more!

This hands-on workshop will empower you to use Microsoft 365 to its fullest potential – maximizing personal productivity, collaborating with your team, or solving challenges across the organization.

Discover what’s possible with Microsoft 365.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power User
• Hands-on requires attendees to bring a device

• Mike Maadarani
• Gokan Ozcifci

Unleash Your Creativity: Design Power Apps Like a Pro with Microsoft Syntex

Transform your Power App design process and drive business results with data from Microsoft Syntex. This AI-powered technology streamlines the data extraction process, providing you with the information you need to create custom Power Apps that meet the unique needs of your organization. With Power Apps, you can focus on designing the app that will deliver real business value, while it takes care of the technical details.

Attend our session to discover how to efficiently extract data with Microsoft Syntex, store it in Dataverse, and manipulate it before creating your Power App.

Say goodbye to manual data extraction and hello to a more efficient, effective Power App design process. Unleash your creativity and take your app design to the next level with Microsoft Syntex.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management
• Power Apps
• Power User
• Syntex

• Nate Chamberlain

A closer look at Approvals and Updates in Microsoft Teams

Approvals and Updates are two apps in Microsoft Teams you can use to customize and standardize routine business processes for your team. For example, you might customize a project request template only your team can use.

Or maybe you want to create a travel approval template the whole organization can use. And with Updates, you can automate regular requests to gather project status updates, performance reviews, and more.

In one hour, you'll learn how these two built-in Teams tools can boost your team's consistency and efficiency.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User
• Power User

• William Huneycutt

Microsoft 365 and OpenAI - the future is now!

The future of the modern workplace is now with Microsoft 365 and OpenAI! In this session you'll learn how OpenAI can be integrated with Microsoft 365 to streamline your business processes, automate tasks, improve workflows, and increase productivity while saving time and effort.

You'll explore how to use Microsoft's new Bing powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT to get more relevant, up-to-date, and annotated search results using natural language chat. You'll learn how to use the new Bing and OpenAI to help you write emails, summarize documents, create presentations, and more in Microsoft 365 apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Microsoft Edge.

The future of the modern workplace is here! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how Microsoft 365 and OpenAI can help you achieve more with less effort! With lots of demos and practical tips, you'll leave with a solid understanding of how to use Microsoft 365 and OpenAI to maximize your productivity.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Power User

• Liam Cleary

Data Security: It's Not Just for IT Anymore

Data security is more important than ever before. As businesses and individuals move more of their data to the cloud, protecting it from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction is essential.

In this session, we will focus on data security for end users in Microsoft 365. We will discuss the common threats to data security and the security features available in Microsoft 365 to help protect your data. We will also share tips and advice on how to use these features effectively.

By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Understand the importance of data security and the common threats to data security
- Identify the key data security features in Microsoft 365
- Learn how to use Microsoft 365 security features to protect your data
- Implement best practices for data security in your workplace

This session is ideal for end users in Microsoft 365 who want to learn more about how to protect their data. No prior knowledge of data security is required.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Power User

• Wes Preston

Forms, Forms, and more Forms. Data gathering for the modern info worker

Microsoft List (and SharePoint) forms, Forms with Power Apps, and Microsoft Forms. Which one (or more) should you use, and when?

This session will walk through updated capabilities and options available to no-code makers and citizen developers when building solutions with forms.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power Platform
• Power User

• Michelle Gilbert

Modern Work Architecture - From the Core to Professional Self

Learn how Microsoft is empowering employee experiences at the core, creativity of personal and team productivity, connection to community and leaders, and your professional experiences.

You will walk away with a new sense of Modern Work Architecture that envisions where work gets done and what matters to you and employees you may support.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Power User

• Nate Chamberlain

Goodbye, TwoNote - A OneNote refresher

OneNote is moving from two separate apps (Win 10 and desktop versions) to a single version, based on the desktop version simply called OneNote (previously known as OneNote 2016).

In this session we'll reintroduce ourselves to OneNote, learn some exciting tips and tricks along with business use ideas, and discuss what's new and what's coming for OneNote.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud & OnPrem
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Power User
• Not hands-on

• Tamara Bredemus

Getting Started Making It Fancy with JSON Formatting

Want to do some fancy formatting? Don't know JSON? Don't worry. If you know how to copy and paste, you too can use JSON to make things fancy.

Some of the fancy things we'll do include:
1) Add Approve and Reject buttons for a list item
2) Create inline editing without even clicking on Edit in grid view
3) Add conditional formatting to a calendar

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Power User
• Not hands-on

• Sarah Haase

Power employee engagement with Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams

Hybrid and remote work are the new normal, but work trends indicate the greatest challenges are a sense of community, connection, relationship-building, and inspiration.

This session highlights how Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams come together to foster company culture, unlock communication and engagement opportunities, organize content, and spark employee creativity.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Content Management
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Power User
• Viva

• Peter Carson

Building a Rich People Search with OOTB and Open Source Components

Whenever we poll an organization for the top features for their Intranet, People Search that actually works is always in the top three. You'd think this would have been long solved, but it's often still a challenge for many organizations.

There are a number of reasons for this:
- People data is often spread in many different places and systems in an organization, and there is no single version of the truth
- As a result, Azure AD, which is the core of identity in Microsoft 365, is either not well populated or just plain wrong
- People search and people cards in Microsoft 365 has gotten tremendously better, but it's still not all the way there

With so much of an organization's IP and knowledge actually in the heads of the people, finding a person or expert is key to success for the organization as a whole.

In this session we'll go over a series of steps any organization can take to get a handle on their people in Microsoft 365, and provide a simple and rich experience for finding the right person at the right time.

- Review of Azure AD identities and how they are managed
* Synced users from on-premises AD with Azure AD Connect
* Cloud only identities
* What IT manages, and what users or the business can self-manage
- Other sources of truth, and how they can be synced to Azure AD
* HRIS, payroll
* Customizing and extending Azure AD with additional attributes specific to the organization
* Easily deploying and configuring an open-source, rich people search web part that can be used organization wide or within departments or business units
- https://github.com/YannickRe/spfx-msgraph-peoplesearch
- Building fully-customized person pages and self-managed profile pages

We'll also share real-world examples of this in use for a municipal police force, large charity, and post-secondary college.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Search

• Bart Peluso

Brewing Beer with IDP, Machine Learning & RPA

Attention technologists & beer drinkers: In this unique session we'll look at how one of the nation's largest independent breweries improved their business & their beer with state-of-the-art document technologies integrated into Microsoft SharePoint. Bring your intellect & your questions. You just might win some cool NBB swag!

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Content Management
• Search
• Solution Showcase

• Virgil Carroll

Microsoft Search: The glues that binds 365

Microsoft Search has been slowly rolling out over the last few years in 365, but it is only in the last year that it has started to achieve its vision of unifying all our content.

In this session, we will explore how Microsoft Search is creating a unified experience across the multitude of 365 apps (and beyond) and how you can leverage this opportunity best in your organization.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Search
• Not hands-on

• Eric Overfield

PnP Modern Search – Microsoft Search and the Art of the Possible

Microsoft Search and SharePoint Search are powerful search tools with a growing set of customization options. In this session, we will investigate search scenarios where out-of-the-box Microsoft and SharePoint Search may and may not meet your requirements. We will look at where Search shines, as well as when a custom solution may be right for you.

Our look at custom search solutions will include an overview of the PnP Modern Search solution and webparts, an open source project managed by the PnP Team, with continued contributions by the community. Learn how to set up, use, and customize PnP Modern Search as well as learn the skillsets required to get the most out of search solutions.

In this session, you'll learn:
- The when and why for custom search experiences
- Overview of PnP Modern Search webparts
- Skillsets for building custom search solutions

• Advanced
• Cloud
• Search
• Not hands-on

• Virgil Carroll

Building your own 365 knowledge network

If anything has been learned from the last few years, its how valuable our collective organizational knowledge is and important it is to make sure everyone has access to it, no matter where or when you work. Microsoft introduced a knowledge management strategy many years ago, an though the different technologies are sprinkled across various 365 services, it is still giving organizations an opportunity to leverage these technologies together into a cohesive strategy.

In this session, Virgil will walk you through the various knowledge management components inside Office 365, including Microsoft Search, SharePoint Syntex and Microsoft Viva (and others). He will help you see how your organization could leverage these opportunities and start you down the path to knowledge management success.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Search
• Viva
• Not hands-on

• Julie Turner

Organizational Tools & Resources: Configuration thru Customization

Your intranet is the entry point to all your company tools and resources. This can be anything from an external website or solution, a custom application, etc. How to centralize all these different tools and applications is one of the most common questions Sympraxis Consulting gets from clients.

Typically, organizations will manually add links to these resources using various web parts across many sites. There is no way out of the box to search your environment for these links. This introduces individual management of enterprise resources, which can cause challenges when there are company changes.

For example, if your company uses Workday for their finances but then decides to switch to Oracle, you’ll have to manually adjust all the different links to Workday within your intranet. If all those links are centralized it is scalable and much easier to manage as the owner of that link can instead edit in one place and have it reflected everywhere.

 
In this session, we'll take a holistic view of the technology through the lens of the Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 and gain an understanding of current state vs. desired state can help organizations in these important ways:
- Define current state and limitations with out of the box web parts
- Understand and compare options for solving your organizations quick links issues through extension
- Identify the pros and cons of each approach

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Azure/o365 Development
• Business Value
• Solution Showcase

• Paul Robichaux

Beyond Backup: Real Talk about Microsoft 365 Data Protection

Microsoft’s entry into the backup and recovery market signals a welcome recognition of the importance of backup capabilities for modern cloud environments—but note, backup alone is not enough. Data protection needs to include much more than just backup and restore of Microsoft 365 data. Join our interactive session, where we’ll discuss the biggest obstacles on the path to delivering robust data recovery, outline practical strategies for building on the native data protection for Microsoft 365 and Azure AD, and showcase current best practices of complete data protection.

Reasons to attend:
• Learn what emerging cloud and hybrid threats you should be watching for and defending against.
• Get answers to your most pressing questions about protecting your key cloud Saas workloads.
• Dive into what a good data protection plan for Microsoft 365 looks like.

• Advanced
• Cloud
• Solution Showcase

• Bart Peluso

Brewing Beer with IDP, Machine Learning & RPA

Attention technologists & beer drinkers: In this unique session we'll look at how one of the nation's largest independent breweries improved their business & their beer with state-of-the-art document technologies integrated into Microsoft SharePoint. Bring your intellect & your questions. You just might win some cool NBB swag!

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Business Value
• Content Management
• Search
• Solution Showcase

• Matt Lavieri
• Darren Kraut

Building a Roadmap to Safeguard Your Data with Microsoft Purview

In today's ever-evolving landscape, safeguarding your data goes beyond meeting internal security benchmarks—it's about staying ahead of emerging compliance and privacy demands. Join our distinguished Microsoft Purview experts in this session where we dive deep into the capabilities of Microsoft Purview. Discover how to not only comprehend these capabilities but also leverage them to construct a strategic roadmap for deploying and harnessing Purview's potential, all in the service of enhancing your Data Protection, Risk, and Compliance Programs. This actionable roadmap is designed to outline the vision, strategy and high-level timeline for success and includes an assessment of organizational priorities and current state of data protection technology.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Business Value
• Solution Showcase

• Nick Palermo

From Insights to Impact: Measuring Your Intranet ROI

Digital Transformation has taken businesses on a journey of technical advances resulting in a new way of working. SharePoint Intranets are no longer static file repositories. They’re dynamic venues for knowledge sharing, productivity, and collaboration. A well-managed modern SharePoint Intranet streamlines communication, improves employee experience and facilitates connection. How can you tell if the investments you have made in modernizing are successful resulting in a well-managed intranet?

• All
• N/A
• Solution Showcase

• Christopher Rousset

Maximizing Microsoft Teams for Training & Compliance

Traditional enterprise learning management systems are designed to deliver and monitor a diverse array of learning activities. However, these conventional learning solutions often operate as standalone systems, remaining detached from the digital communication and collaboration hubs that are integral to daily work routines.

With more than 280 million active users, for many Microsoft Teams is now the cornerstone of their increasingly hybridized workspace. So, the question becomes, how does one bring learning to this pivotal hub.

By seamlessly integrating learning resources within the familiar Microsoft Teams environment, you can significantly boost the effectiveness of knowledge sharing across Microsoft 365 and deepen employee usage across this platform. It's about delivering precisely the right learning materials to the right individuals at precisely the right moment in their workflow.

Join our session where we'll unveil:
- How you can effortlessly embed learning experiences directly into Microsoft Teams
- How to get the data you need to track and report training progress
- What this means for overall employee success and productivity at your organization
- Real-life success stories

Harness the power of Microsoft Teams and unlock new avenues for efficiency, productivity, compliance, and collaborative learning.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• AI/OpenAI
• Content Management
• Microsoft Teams Adoption
• Microsoft Teams User
• Solution Showcase

• Christian Buckley

How to Winter-Proof Your M365 Tenant

In this session, we delve into comprehensive strategies and practical solutions to secure and optimize your Microsoft 365 tenant for seamless performance throughout the winter season and beyond. We'll discuss how to:

1) Declutter your Microsoft 365 Tenant
2) Optimize Microsoft 365 Costs
3) Automate Operational Processes
4) Manage Access and Permissions
5) Establish Teams and SharePoint Provisioning

Join us to empower your organization with knowledge and tools to winter-proof your M365 tenant, ensuring robustness, security, and cost-effectiveness.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• Microsoft Teams Admin
• Solution Showcase

• Brian Alderman

Becoming a SharePoint Online Admin Expert

SharePoint Online in Microsoft 365 has many components and in this full day workshop we are going to learn about these different components and how to manage them so SharePoint Online is properly configured, secure, and optimized.

We will create a new M365 tenant, customize the admin center, add some users, groups, and manage roles, as well as discuss, explore, and roll up our sleeves and configure SharePoint Online configuration settings, create and configure site collections, configure user profile settings, create a structured taxonomy using the term store, and configure the search service to ensure your users are able to quickly find the information they need.

When you leave, you’ll have all the skills necessary to configure and manage the different SharePoint Online components using both the SharePoint Online Admin Center, and PowerShell.

• Advanced
• Cloud
• Admin/Implementation
• SP Development
• Not hands-on

• Andrew Connell

Developers! Learn the SharePoint Framework to Customize and Extend Microsoft 365

The best way you can customize and extend your SharePoint site is by using the SharePoint Framework (SPFx). This model is the way you customize and extend the SharePoint modern experience for SharePoint Online, but that’s not all because now you can use it to create apps for Microsoft Teams, Viva Connections, and Office apps.

In this half-day session, you’ll see how to get up your dev environment running in just a few minutes & then we’ll start building! By the end of the day, you’ll know how to build web parts, single-page apps (SPAs), extensions, integrate data from SharePoint and external sources, and so much more! Walk away with a ZIP filled with sample projects & tons of resources!

NOTE: Hey 👋, Andrew here… this workshop is not intended for attendees to follow along & build the same projects during the session. Instead, focus on learning, taking notes, & getting answers to your questions - you’ll walk away with everything at the end of the day!

• Intermediate
• Cloud & OnPrem
• SP Development
• Not hands-on

• Don Kirkham

Getting Started with the SharePoint Framework (SPFx)

he SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is now the established future for modern, client-side development in the Microsoft ecosystem. SPFx is used for SharePoint webparts and extensions, Teams apps, Adaptive Card Extensions (ACEs) and Microsoft Viva.

The first step in SPFx development is understanding the model and building the appropriate development environment. We will cover these topics, configure a flexible developer environment and then build, debug, and deploy our first SPFx webpart.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• SP Development

• Derek Cash-Peterson

Introduction To Custom List Forms Using SPFx

In this introductory developer session, we will talk about the functionality released in SPFx that supports list form customizers. This functionality allows developers to create a customized user interface for forms in SharePoint lists or libraries enhancing the user experience and providing the ability to include custom logic into the form. In this session we will create our first list form customizer and attach it to a SharePoint list. We will also look at how to enhance the user experience through the use of a Fluent UI design system. Attendees will leave with an understanding of how to create their first list form customizers and have resources to support further exploration. All are welcome and while development experience isn’t necessary for this session, we will be looking at code and talking about SPFx and React.

• Introductory and overview
• Cloud
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• SP Development
• Not hands-on

• Corey Roth

Building solutions for Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and Office.com with SharePoint Framework

The SharePoint Framework (SPFx) is a development toolkit for building apps and web parts for Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Adaptive Cards, and Office.com.

In this session, attendees will learn how to use the SPFx to create custom solutions for these platforms. We will cover the basics of setting up an SPFx development environment, including how to create a new project and configure it to work with Teams, Outlook, and Office.com.

We will also discuss how to use Adaptive Cards to create interactive and dynamic user interfaces for these platforms. Finally, we will demonstrate how to deploy and test SPFx apps in a real-world scenario.

Attendees will leave this session with the knowledge and skills needed to start building custom solutions for Teams, Outlook, Adaptive Cards, and Office.com using the SharePoint Framework.

• Intermediate
• Cloud
• Azure/o365 Development
• SP Development

• Cathy Dew

SharePoint in the AI Era: Introducing Copilot in SharePoint

Join in to hear and see the future vision of SharePoint from the user experience (UX) perspective. You'll hear both now and future context, a peek behind how Microsoft plans to evolve SharePoint design, and best practices when creating and building gorgeous sites and pages for communication creators and consumers alike. One not to miss if you want to get clarity on where SharePoint is heading next.

• Intermediate
• AI/OpenAI
• Copilot
• SP Development

• Derek Cash-Peterson